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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.
if alphabet's shareholders heard this, they would take them to court. it can't be true. and if they're willing to pay, someone else will be, too.
You're saying this as a matter of fact. But it's not how it works in real life, otherwise people would have already migrated.
they pay you because they get paid by advertisers. cut them out of the middle and go directly to the companies running ads on your vids.