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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YouTube. Im sure this has been a thing for a while... but this is getting out of hand. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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It'll keep continuing until you get one FPS and no audio without paying for premium.

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[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago

Downloading with yt-dlp results in full bitrate if the "AV1" format is selected. Well, last I tried.

MPV has a yt-dlp plugin (historically still referenced "ytdl") if you want to watch once and burn the download: mpv -- ytdl://video_id_here. Note that if the video is 4K or 8K, it will play that and not auto switch.