Has YouTube experienced enshittification?
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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Enshittification
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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.
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As someone that prefers to watch series in order… wtf?
This is the homepage, i.e. youtube.com. If you were watching a series, I would imagine you'd go through the channel page, which should still have the upload date visible.
Except YouTube can't count and will show you episode 3 on the home page then recommend episodes 4 7 5 6 8 in that order even if there is a playlist.
I have encountered so many YouTube playlists of TV shows with everything in reverse order and it's annoying as fuck.
That is on the playlist creator. There is even a button in YouTube studio to flip the order.