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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YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by LuuTuyen@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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Google is doing scummy things, Literally 2024

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[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Long story short:

Brave isn’t trying to block ads. They just want to replace ads with their crypto powered system. It’s just that none uses it.
The founder is a jerk who is anti LGBT. Not just passively but actively.
Brave pushes itself as a chrome alternative. It’s not. It’s just chrome with a fancy skin. If people want to support web diversity Brave does not help.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the details…

if I don’t use their rewards program and they still block ads then it’s a win-win for me.

A founder with despicable views is not great, but again by using his product but not the monitization features I’m not really contributing anything to him.

Chrome with a fancy skin that blocks ads… is there another trusted browser that does the same thing with chrome level security that I can try? Even Edge is Chrome with a fancy skin now.

Just to clarify I do not browse with Brave, I only use it as a launcher for YouTube.

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair. I would consider Firefox as well. With uBlock Origin you can use YouTube ad free too. And you help increase web diversity. Win win.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Firefox for general browsing and clear all cookies and history every shutdown. The problem I had was I had been rotating UBO, ABP, AdBlock, ghostry, Twitch Ad Block etc. and they all kept messing up browsing, YouTube, or Twitch in one way or another.

Brave was the only one to not fail on YouTube at any time in the last year, so I kept it just for YT.

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair. I would say you don’t need most of those. Just try uBO alone. Add others as needed. But realistically you should not have to. All you should have to do is add a block list to uBO.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I did I only ever enabled one at a time. They all had their issues with Twitch and YT blocking though. I’ve not found a solution for Twitch that works well, so I just sub to the occasional streamer now.