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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was about time, was always strange that Twitch did it first, and just like over there I'm hopeful some clever people will still make scripts capable of blocking ads.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

there's scripts to block twitch ads?

and nobody told me???

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mostly just hide video and mute audio until it's over. Alternate player for twitch is the name of the extension.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

The TTV LOL pro app works but it can be spotty sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

TTV LOL pro is ran on public proxies, if u run the proxies yourself then you will have 0 issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I use video swap new from the GitHub the other commenter posted.