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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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Can you maybe add 2 and 2 to get a 4?
Your "ad experience" being "worse", mwans that more ads are shown to you, so companies are more inclined to advertise, because their ad money is not wasted.
You either pay for premium or watch ads. You don't want to watch ads and you don't want to pay for premium. You're a free-loader leech and you're crying enshitification where there is none.
You get more ads so they can collect more money for ever-increasing server and content-creator costs.
Again, either a child or absolutely clueless.
We pay with the data they are illegally harvesting.
Fuck youtube and fuck american companies, I will leech the fuck of it until they crumble.
What is data used for?
Is it... advertising, maybe?
Not only that. Youtube ads yes but also google ads, resold to others companies, AI training, etc...
etc.. indeed.