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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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10-20 years ago shit like this would have destroyed the platform. People who put up with it ruin the entire space. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Stop!!! You cant watch content unless you hand over your identification papers sir.

While you are here may i interest you in our other entrances which are further away from where you actually wanted to go and will also stop you from entering without providing identification.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're right, those videos look like total garbage

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Was speaking the login requirement but the ads for other videos is insult to injury

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even if you're logged out, YouTube still recommends videos based on your viewing habits.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ok

Not an advid watcher so they are just going off what ever link I happen to click any given day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That's still a lot.

  1. They know what videos you click (obviously)

  2. They know when you click them

  3. They know how much you watch each of the videos

  4. They know how many times you click on the videos

  5. Depending on the platform/client/browser/search engine implementation, they see what videos are shown to you before you click on them (thumbnail gets fetched, autoplay, pre-loading, etc.)

  6. If someone sent you the link, they most likely know who's sent you the link (through a reference ID)

  7. The person who's sent you this is probably logged in, so they know them by name, DoB, interests, etc. From here on out they can guess your own membership of certain statistical cohortsa bit better then through yourown clickinglinks alone.

And a host of other things - where you're located (IP address), what type of connection you're on (IP address + bandwidth), what type of device, what browser/client, etc.

This is just of the top of my head.

Don't mean to scare anyone with this, but it is inherently spooky at the very least.