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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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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)

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[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also. We have ai now. I don't see it being so difficult to train a model that can recognize ads.

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes. What I'm also wondering though, why hasn't Youtube started injecting ads directly into the video feed earlier?

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago

afaik it's just hideously expensive to do, they have to splice it into every single version of the video and it's just a massive headache

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