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Wow, thanks youtube that's so cool.
YouTube's also been experimenting with built-in sponsorblock for Premium subscribers, which I find weird.
That would be pretty outrageous given that those sponsorships are direct income for the content creators, and Google has no say in it. That feature would be Google directly harming every single content creator to increase their own profits, while the creators get absolutely nothing.
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Youtube trying not to show ads for 2 seconds(impossible).
Okay, so what we now need is a browser plugin that skips ahead 15 or 30 seconds, mapped to a hotkey.
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How is this enshitification?
You're using third-party tools to circumvent the thing that the platform is held together by.
And the platform is now circumventing the third-party tool.
Pay for premium if you don't want ads. The servers aren't free.
Or, yknow, use an alternative. But you won't, because Mr. Beast and ASMR ear lickers aren't there.
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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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