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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
(lemmy.world)
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.
You should start using an adblocker then, like uBlock Origin.
BTW I do that too
Of course, I use uBlock Origin.
But sometimes, I'm on a fresh install or on a friend's computer and I forget that I don't have an ad blocker.