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I went with the article title, but I think this isn't enshitification in the traditional sense of the platform making bad choices from a user perspective. Instead this is about shitty use of the platform by malicious users.

This article talks about a practice the author has dubbed "Playlist Stuffing" where an irrelevant, long, and monetized video is added into a playlist, low enough to not show up in the search result for that playlist. The accounts engaging in this seem to be compromised and abandoned accounts from the early days of youtube.

From the article:

In recent months, however, countless tainted playlists have cropped up in YouTube search results. Engadget compiled a sample of 100 channels (there are undoubtedly many, many more) engaged in what we'll refer to as playlist stuffing. These had between 30 and 1,987 playlists each — 58,191 in total. The overwhelming majority of these stuffed playlists contain an irrelevant, nearly hour-long video simply titled "More."

The robotic narration of "More" begins: "Cryptocurrency investing, when approached with a long-term perspective, can be a powerful way to build wealth." You'd be forgiven for assuming its aim is to direct unwitting listeners to a shitcoin pump-and-dump. But over the next 57 minutes and 55 seconds, it meanders incoherently between a variety of topics like affiliate marketing, making a website and search engine optimization.

For all its supposed advice on making easy money online, its best example isn't anything said in the video, it's that "More" has amassed nearly 7.5 million views at the time of this writing — and it's monetized.

The vast majority of channels engaged in this activity were created in 2006, and the youngest was claimed in February of 2009. In all likelihood, these accounts were abandoned long ago and have since been compromised, either by whoever is behind "More" or by a third party which sold access to these accounts to them.

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Meta is reportedly developing what it calls a "super sensing" type of facial recognition technology to its smart glasses lineup. A new report from The Information said that Meta is developing software for the glasses that has the ability to recognize people by name and keep better track of what users are doing throughout the day.

The company originally planned to include similar technology in its first wave of smart glasses, but abandoned that effort due to privacy concerns.

The aim of Spottarr is to provide a more modern application that aims for efficiency and more precise search results, while leaving the media management and browsing to the existing *Arrs.

The brilliant @[email protected] has been doing a series in [email protected] about unknown kick ass women from history. This is my favourite, she fought alongside men from her tribe and was a fierce protector for her people. The post is too good to keep to myself!

*PLEASE NOTE WOMENSSTUFF IS A TRANS+ AND NON BINARY INCLUSIVE WOMENS ONLY COMMUNITY, MEN PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT

As the title asks. I have an up to date prescription, where's the best place to order from?