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YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally
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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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I have all of Google completely blocked and I don’t care to watch content from YouTube. It’s a nonissue for me, but sometimes I’ll use Invidious if I really need to — so the random ads would definitely suck.