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?
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Can I SHOUT LOUD ( to far too many people still covering their ears ! ) *TOLD YOU SO* ! ACTUALLY IS ALREADY HAPPENING ! … “Oh it’s always going to be on the internet to download when I need it” … NO IT’S NOT !! How many times YT for whatever reason took down something or forbidden you to see in full or … What’s going to happen ? That when they’ll really need money they’ll start say PAY OR WE TAKE ALL DOWN … and content will vanish from YT !