Technology

Enshittification

firefox and uBlock Origin. I don't see ads. Fuck Google and their AI.

Because advertisers want viewers to associate their products and brand with feelings of annoyance, aggravation, and frustration?

They mean - maximize irritation? Put ads in the most obnoxious way?

There's a good global task for FOSS alternatives of YouTube and other places where life happens.

A decentralized scraper. Something similar to SETI@home, or that hentai analog for storage. So that based on some metric YT content would be divided between users willing to contribute their machines and accounts to scraping YT (a bit similar to searching DHT, and probably some kind of DHT would be useful), and then they'd download that and re-publish in some p2p alternative.

TBH probably also good for that little of the web that is still possible to represent as static pages and browse via links.

The issue is that alternatives lack content, and the closed nature of proprietary services gives them an advantage - there is content there which doesn't exist outside of them.

And people just reuploading by hand what they themselves consider interesting are a little fraction of the majority that doesn't bother.

Wow big congratulations to the corporate ghoul who thought this up. Thanks for making our world a shittier place.

Imagine ...

THIS IS SP....

Insert unskippable ad here.

ARTA!

They already did something similar back in the day. I remember watching a music video some ~10 years ago where they placed an ad like five seconds before the end of the song, right at the musical climax, ruining the mood with surgical precision. I was absolutely infuriated and went off to Google wondering if there's a way to block ads. And the rest is history.

I am a YUGE fan of FreeTube, a cross-platform YT client for the desktop. You can subscribe to channels, create, save, import, and export playlists...and no. Ads. Tis the bees knees.

And just a friendly reminder to donate to your favorite FOSS projects.

I am used to listening to streams while walking, but I've been noticing the most annoying ads pop-up when I'm interested in something they are saying. This isn't going to make me pay attention to those ads, it's going to drive me to the plethora of other services I can use. The worst thing about it is that it doesn't even pause and cache the stream, meaning that if I was listening to something interesting, the ad just causes me to miss it. Google just keeps eating its own tail.

It would be wrong to call it a replacement, but this is a good place to plug !peertube@lemmy.world - there's more quality content on there than many might suspect, especially if you are into FOSS and people tinkering with stuff they are passionate about.

OK let's all skip to the middle of sponsor segments so the ads cover the sponsor segment. Win win

YouTube really likes to just destroy itself huh?

Enough is never enough.

Why do you need "AI" for this? That is something that can be done client side on a 30 year old phone without sweat if you already have a list of timestamps and number of engagements for a video?

Gemini also being forced on me more and more in Android. Seriously considering a linux phone next.

LOL. Like every tech story from the US is about enshittification. too funny.

More enshittification!