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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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Genuinely asking, why won’t you ever buy yt premium?
Not OP, but I would definitely pay for premium if they offered a lower cost version that was only ad-free YouTube. But I won't pay when they justify the higher cost with forced bundling of other services I am not interested in and have no use for, e.g., YouTube Music.
$13.99/mo is pretty steep, and realistically I'd have to get it for my wife too which effectively doubles the price and would make it the most expensive streaming service I've ever subscribed to (behind SeriusXM which at least has to finance literal satellites in space and delivers me radio when I'm in dead zones with no cell towers). More than my budget right now will allow for sure (I just cancelled every subscription after rechecking my budget)