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Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by gosub100 on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @09:14PM (#41241605)
Cutting or removing features!= enshittification. To me that word means contracts with early cancellation fees, charging more for long form or educational content, pop-ups, rate limiting ( you get 10 vids per day on your free plan), charging to upload, billing authors for bandwidth used, and so on. I don't think you realize how good we have it.
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Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by avhon1 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @02:39AM (#41243213)
Your definition slightly off. Here it is from the guy who coined the term:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Removing features is absolutely part of enshittification.

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Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by gosub100 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:18AM (#41246382)
>Then, they die.

Yeah, any day now YT is going to shut its doors.

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Re:SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube by yifanl on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @11:42AM (#41247377)
You must have an incredible lack of imagination, the story of software is the story of mayflies.
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