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It'll keep continuing until you get one FPS and no audio without paying for premium.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2026
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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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I watch free youtube on my tv. I get ads but in the big scheme of things the variety of content I get from youtube dwarfs any advertisement interruptions I receive...so far. As far as video quality goes, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, depending on the source. I watched the old "Crime Story" series on youtube and it was pretty bad and blurry and I enjoyed the hell out of that series. Your brain can quickly autofill a lot of visual blanks. The nickel and dime bullshit is getting annoying though. One day they'll price themselves out of customers or switch to only serving the elite (in this case the 'elite' mean those with employment).