| > because the standard free version will become so bad that you will pay the subscription to have a somewhat decent experience. I suppose the term for this is called en-shittification, correct? I feel like this is because of Youtube being a monopoly, which is used by almost all people including here, far more than any other platform I have seen. We kind of need more Youtube alternatives. I know bandwidth and storage is a hard problem to solve, but we probably need better alternatives if a company can seemingly just charge 8 times more. I mean, raising prices 8 times is seen as a joke by most if not all companies/products. I personally wouldn't be impacted because I use ad-block and have given my family the same. But to imagine someone either getting so many insane ads (can we now expect ads to be 8 times more too?, I hope I am not giving someone at Youtube some ideas) or people who might be struggling financially because of so many instances to be asked to pay money or be shown X ads in Y time. I had thought that Google had deep pockets but I genuinely feel like we are all funding the AI bubble one way or another through mechanisms like these and we are having no say in any of these things. I feel like as the world itself is turning en-shittified and we are all having no say in all of this :-/ |