mccJun 30, 2023
Entire Internet is dying at once https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-confirm-three-strikes-policy-ad-blocking-test-3340826/
YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking, here's how it works

YouTube has confirmed that it's testing a three-strikes policy for blocking ads. It's also outlined how this policy will work.

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2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms

2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so

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I just wrote about this, haha.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cascadianprepper/p/a-life-in-digital-degradation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1szg4f

A life in Digital Degradation

In the dynamic world of digital platforms, there's a phenomenon happening that has been prevalent since social media became a huge part of our lives. It's a process I call "digital degradation," a term that encapsulates the lifecycle of many platforms we use daily like Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Reddit, Etc.

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Jun 30, 2023 at 2:35pmWeb