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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
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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
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
Okay, so what we now need is a browser plugin that skips ahead 15 or 30 seconds, mapped to a hotkey.
On mobile.
Because on desktop, you can just tap your arrow keys a couple of times. Skipping around a video on a mobile device with nothing but a touch screen -- which is where the vast majority of users are viewing -- is a pain in the ass.
So yeah. Just put a Big Red Button in the corner for people to press. Skip.
You can skip on mobile. Just double tap on right or left.
Although I assume YouTube will disable that for ads.
If they are evil enough, it will just simply register as a click (tap) on the ad.