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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube. (aus.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

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[–] VoxofGod@mastodon.social 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Curious if you are aware of anyway of downloading one's content off YouTube for this all but inevitable moment?

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 0 points 9 months ago

I use Downie (on Mac) but there’s a video downloader app for every platform. It doesn’t download the ads either 😉

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[–] bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Some of it is saved by public services (for content in french, by INA).

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[–] AubreyDeLosDestinos@101010.pl 1 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology, then it is deleted and gone.

[–] bste@mstdn.social 0 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology truth!

[–] leeloo@techhub.social 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology
"So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?"

Things improve.

Youtube does not have a monopoly because it's the only video app installed on your computer, but because it's the one everyone uses.

Plenty of people have tried to compete, but Youtube was good enough. Others had good reasons to try but concluded that Youtube was good enough.

When Youtube is no longer good enough, they get to show they can do it better.

Google search is worse, because it hasn't been good enough for a long time, but somehow every competitor has decided to be worse. Altavista 25 years ago beat what Google search is today, I can't imagine Microsoft being unable to afford to bring Bing up to Altavista levels.

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[–] jmcrookston@mastodon.social 0 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

"If"?

[–] RealJournalism@mastodon.social 0 points 9 months ago

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Or Elon Musk takes over?

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I’m not worried about it. You don’t need YouTube in your life.

If it bothers you this much you may be spending entirely way too much time on your computer.

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