Enshittification

1629 readers

2 users here now

What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

981

YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

363 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock/112603139898164385

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They'll put ads in books too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You do know physical books exist, dont you? :) I did not say ebook.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They have physical books that supplement the printing costs with ads.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Libraries still exist for now. Take advantage of them and maybe they won't all get shut down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

library books are still physical books that sometimes have ads in them to supplement thecost of printing. they don't get conjured up by librarian mages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

insert gif here

Be a lot cooler if they did

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Those aren't super intrusive. It's not a loud ad that has to load, yell at you and slows down getting to the content I question, and printed ads in books don't disrupt a music listening session by playing shitty ad music between songs as you're getting a specific mood on. Print ads don't bug me the way web and video ads do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Many physical books have ads in the beginning and end. I would dare to say all. At the very least, a small "banner" ad for the publisher on one page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you have to watch it for 30 seconds before you're allowed to turn the page? Does it pop up every 5 pages and can't be skipped?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol sorry, are advertisements that aren't intrusive not considered advertisements to you??? Maybe that mindset is why the internet is unusable without an ad blocker..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I still think you dont know the difference between a magazine and a book, and that scares me tbh.