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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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I install smarttubenext app on android TV - it's a YouTube without ads.

And revanced on a phone. Or just YouTube on Firefox with ublock on a phone