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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is enshittification the new word for late stage capitalism?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

Enshittification, also called chokepoint capitalism, is a term coined by Corey Doctorow (sp?) that lays out a common pattern with platforms in a capitalist system where:

Platform builds a product to entice users to it for little to no cost to the user (Google search, Facebook, Amazon shopping, etc)
Once users are locked in, make the experience worse in ways that increase profits for business partners (Google ads partners, etc)
Once business partners are locked in, screw them over to rake back as many profits for the platform owner.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Sounds like it is.