Enshittification 🌈🦄

Yesterday I wanted to watch a video.

The second I air played it to my tv YouTube reloaded the video at 360p resolution and removed the up to 1440p resolutions from the list.

Fuck YouTube.

I love waiting an extra 7 seconds for videos to load for the crime of using Firefox. They forgot to put the artificial timer on shorts, so those work fine.

All enshittification is a shame, but doing it to youtube feels especially bad.

The platform already has a critical mass, to where it was essentially democratized television. If you want to make documentaries, DIY how-to's, or fictional comedies, the answer is the same. Youtube would be the home for any long-form videos requiring working attention spans.

But with the enshittification, not only is the experience worse for viewers as well as creators, but it provides a motive for people to migrate away from the platform.

So what we're going to see will be akin to the transformation from when Netflix was the one stop shop for streaming movies and shows for one low price, versus now where it's just one overpriced service out of many.

What have they done now?

Dr. Alphabet: "We have billions...but squeeze the users more and we could have trillions."

It’s still YT based of course, but I’ve been using Nebula and Invidious for years to access vids coming from YT. Also watch Curiosity Stream.

I haven’t seen ads in a long long time. I even paid for a lifetime subscription to Nebula because I’d prefer to support through Nebula than through Google.

Smart tube for my tv. On my desktop I have firefox and a couple youtube addons and strategic elements on the site are blocked with my ad blocker. My youtube literally just looks like a grid of videos without frills

Freetube and invidious

Android is going this way rapidly. As well as things like AndroidTV. I got a Shield and it was literally unusable without putting Projectivity Launcher on it.

80% of the browser extensions I have are all for youtube. I'm trying to cut down with Stylus and GreasyFork scripts. I use Invidious more often, but the shit goes down frequently and it's completely unpredictable, not to mention wholly unreliable for hosting any watch lists.

I'm downloading more .mp4 files than I have since the Limewire days. I just can't stand the bloat anymore. My Windows Media Player be lookin' like Gary on the last leg of the Great Snail Race with the amount of use it's suddenly getting after not being launched in years lol

No way, you need a wider angle shot of the meth super lab for the meme to even come close to describing the enshittification run that YT and Google as a whole as on.

even ~~more~~ fucking worse

ftfy