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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Dju@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] thefrankring@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

When I see an ad on the internet, I purposefully look away to not look at it.

It is deeply ingrained in my brain to never let ads win.

I don't know how my parents are doing it with cable TV.

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You should start using an adblocker then, like uBlock Origin.

BTW I do that too

[–] thefrankring@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Of course, I use uBlock Origin.

But sometimes, I'm on a fresh install or on a friend's computer and I forget that I don't have an ad blocker.