That used to be the case, back when Steam Sales were a chaotic feeding frenzy of discounts. These days it’s pretty much the same throughout.

In case anyone is curious - as I was - here’s the commercial: https://youtu.be/uTVlnehpRHQ

(Not the Toys R Us channel, in case you don’t want to give them direct views.)

Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

Because all the legal services are incredibly anti-consumer and are offering less services, with (more) ads, for more money every year.

It’s like they took an ergonomics textbook and read it upside-down.

Haha literally what planet do they live on?

That was quite a segue into complaining about inflation.

1: Does IBM even have an LLM that would be considered “good” these days? Maybe they do, but I haven’t heard about it.

2: If this was in 2019, no wonder it flopped. Only very recently have we gotten to a point where this should’ve even been considered (and then, in my opinion given the current state of LLMs, dismissed).

3: More than 100 stores were testing this?? Did they not think to start with like, one store and see if that worked at all?

4: While a short-lived victory, this is still a win for people that rely on these jobs. Good for them.

I mean, there isn’t really one singular instance for Canada lol.

Oh absolutely, I just meant to say that technically I am on a “local instance”.

Yeah, that’s the stuff that makes this difficult. I can talk all day about what “makes sense”, but you throw one corporate executive into the mix and everything falls apart.

sh.itjust.works is Canadian last I checked, though it isn’t readily apparent.

Not sure if I’m able to change my username (and too lazy to check right now), but that’s honestly not a bad plan.

On the other hand, with more money going to the US alternatives, there’s more potential for a US company to step into that niche once it’s open.

Not that it’ll necessarily happen obviously, but it does make it a bit easier at least.

Also, I feel like I should add the disclaimer of “I’m not American.” I wish I could show my country next to my username or something lol.

Ngl, I’m torn on this because I’m honestly not sure I could stop using YouTube.

I hate ads with a burning passion, though, so we’ll see which wolf wins out there.

If i can’t get around this using something like SponsorBlock, I feel like I’ll probably just set up some kind of pipeline to download videos and remove the ads myself (maybe using AI if it’s that bad) and just serve them over Jellyfin or something. Gonna be a pain, though.

Fair points all around. Have a great evening!

I don’t disagree that the word should exist, I’m saying it’s become overused to the point of becoming meaningless. Take this entire thread, for instance. This is not enshittification - yet, here we are.

Protecting profits isn’t the same as trying to squeeze more profits. If companies were enacting bad policy out of legitimate concern for their business (as is the case here), it wouldn’t necessarily be an issue.

That’s a stretch.

I think we see it so much because kids on the internet think it’s fun to say. It’s dismissive and stifles meaningful conversation.