Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: The banality of evil - aka terminal phase enshittification. Question: what does the ...
The banality of evil - aka terminal phase enshittification.
Question: what does the following snippet of polymer script do (only enabled if the user agent matches Firefox)?
setTimeout(function() {
c();
a.resolve(1)
}, 5E3);
Answer: it punishes you for not using Chrome by making you wait 5 seconds more before rendering a video - and, to be clear, in the meantime it does absolutely nothing.
I've stated it many times, I'll state it again: Google doesn't give a fuck about YouTube being a good service. Or none of their services being good services, to be clear. For what they're concerned, they could also turn all their products into big ad billboards that connect to your camera and microphone 24/7 without actually providing any service, if one of their PMs could prove that they could do so without negatively impacting their profitability and stock price. They are the living proof that "capitalism creates competition and forces companies to deliver the best possible product to their customers" is bullshit.
They don't even care to make you wait 5 extra seconds before rendering a video if you use a browser they don't like. They hope that your reaction will simply be "Firefox is slow, I'll switch to Chrome".
So, please, just stop using YouTube entirely. That digital sewage doesn't deserve a single byte of our direct traffic. If you want to support creators, donate to services like Nebula. Or watch videos on PeerTube and help with seeding them. Or, if some content is really only available on YouTube, used Piped - or Platypush+Piped+yt-dlp for the ability to cast anything anywhere.
Google is currently in a stage where it won't stop enshittifying until their dick moves pass a digital crapware tolerance threshold and actually cause measurable traffic loss that translates into revenue loss. Pirating them, and ensuring that our traffic costs them money without yielding a single cent of revenue, is a moral duty.
https://reddit.fabiomanganiello.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/comment/k9w3ei4/?context=3
Question: what does the following snippet of polymer script do (only enabled if the user agent matches Firefox)?
setTimeout(function() {
c();
a.resolve(1)
}, 5E3);
Answer: it punishes you for not using Chrome by making you wait 5 seconds more before rendering a video - and, to be clear, in the meantime it does absolutely nothing.
I've stated it many times, I'll state it again: Google doesn't give a fuck about YouTube being a good service. Or none of their services being good services, to be clear. For what they're concerned, they could also turn all their products into big ad billboards that connect to your camera and microphone 24/7 without actually providing any service, if one of their PMs could prove that they could do so without negatively impacting their profitability and stock price. They are the living proof that "capitalism creates competition and forces companies to deliver the best possible product to their customers" is bullshit.
They don't even care to make you wait 5 extra seconds before rendering a video if you use a browser they don't like. They hope that your reaction will simply be "Firefox is slow, I'll switch to Chrome".
So, please, just stop using YouTube entirely. That digital sewage doesn't deserve a single byte of our direct traffic. If you want to support creators, donate to services like Nebula. Or watch videos on PeerTube and help with seeding them. Or, if some content is really only available on YouTube, used Piped - or Platypush+Piped+yt-dlp for the ability to cast anything anywhere.
Google is currently in a stage where it won't stop enshittifying until their dick moves pass a digital crapware tolerance threshold and actually cause measurable traffic loss that translates into revenue loss. Pirating them, and ensuring that our traffic costs them money without yielding a single cent of revenue, is a moral duty.
https://reddit.fabiomanganiello.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/comment/k9w3ei4/?context=3