Has YouTube experienced enshittification?
My guess is that it makes it easier to suggest you older content that wouldn’t be interesting when you can see at a glance how outdated it is.
I don’t understand why the hell I would want to watch an old ass YouTube video unless I sought it out.
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.
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