Enshittification
Welcome to Enshittification
A community for everyone who misspelt it as enshitification.
"I the onceler felt sad as I watched them all go, but business is business and business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies you know."
This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.
From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.
Guidelines
🔹 Stay on Topic: Only post content about the decline of tech products, platforms, or companies.
🔹 Quality Content: Give some context when posting links or articles to drive quality discussions.
🔹 Respectful Discussion: Critique companies, crappy tech, and capital, not community members.
🔹 Positive Monday: The first Monday of every month is reserved for positive content only that shows enshittification isn't inevitable.
Join us to expose the changes that ruin the things we once loved and to discuss what comes next in a tech world gone wrong.
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Has yt just...stopped working for anyone else? I assume it's due in some part to the various addons I have blocking ads and js, but it was just getting jankier and laggier (lagging my whole system) by the day until the latest ui update broke it completely. I've just moved off the site entirely now, so probably for the best, but I struggle to understand how progressively making the user experience worse is supposed to generate higher profits. So dumb.
Freetube and Newpipe still work for now.
I've used newpipe on mobile years now, but just ytdl for desktop now. It's the most consistent.
Yeah I had to turn off "uBlock filters – Quick fixes" in uBlock origin on firefox to get youtube working again. Otherwise I would get just a black frame where the video should be. I haven't noticed any ads getting through with that filter disabled, but I make no assurances.
I've found alternatives already, but yeah, I figured it was an aggressive incompatibility with some adblock or another. Still don't know why it lagged my entire desktop when yt was open in a browser.