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10-20 years ago shit like this would have destroyed the platform. People who put up with it ruin the entire space.
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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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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Even if you're logged out, YouTube still recommends videos based on your viewing habits.
Ok
Not an advid watcher so they are just going off what ever link I happen to click any given day.
That's still a lot.
They know what videos you click (obviously)
They know when you click them
They know how much you watch each of the videos
They know how many times you click on the videos
Depending on the platform/client/browser/search engine implementation, they see what videos are shown to you before you click on them (thumbnail gets fetched, autoplay, pre-loading, etc.)
If someone sent you the link, they most likely know who's sent you the link (through a reference ID)
The person who's sent you this is probably logged in, so they know them by name, DoB, interests, etc. From here on out they can guess your own membership of certain statistical cohortsa bit better then through yourown clickinglinks alone.
And a host of other things - where you're located (IP address), what type of connection you're on (IP address + bandwidth), what type of device, what browser/client, etc.
This is just of the top of my head.
Don't mean to scare anyone with this, but it is inherently spooky at the very least.
They also know who is near you and what they are up to, so perhaps you, too....!