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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
(lemmy.world)
Dude needs to say less. Don’t do YT work for them ffs 🤦♂️
Nobody should be going on any of Google's data mining sites in the first place. Fuck YouTube and if that means we have to stop watching shitty "content creator" videos and random "funny" bullshit, good.
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.