I don't think openly asking you to enable history is a dark pattern, at all. that doesn't matter, though. so, seems to me that what they're doing is encouragi

I don't think openly asking you to enable history is a dark pattern, at all. that doesn't matter, though. so, seems to me that what they're doing is encouraging users to watch more videos, so Google can serve more ads, and thus increase revenue. Surely they understand that this has to end at some point, right? They keep taking steps to get users to watch more, so they can serve more ads, "earning" more money from advertisers. Users will continue to resist changes like this, which will encourage Google to get more aggressive about getting people to "play along" which will push more users away, and so on. at some point, SURELY, Google will understand that previous growth rates are impossible to sustain, right? and that this is a normal thing when you have an entire market completely and totally dominated across all demographics? Right? Like, how far are they going to go? until every last video on the Internet is served by them? until everyone either pays for YT Premium or watches 6 ads every 90 seconds? They understand that they are just creating a dystopia so that people click ads, right? They obviously know, because they measure the performance of the company by how many people watch ads, click on ads, and pay for YT Premium. So they're aware that they're creating something unsustainable and they're doing it anyway? for a good evaluation on their performance review? what the fuck? "Successfully wore down enough people so they stopped blocking ads and watched more videos served with ads, wasting literally millions of person-hours per year, and lowering the quality of life for those users so that value can be extracted from their activities more completely, all for the glory of Google quarterly reports." at this point, if you work for any company that puts ads in front of people's eyes, please sit down for a minute and think about how you'll feel after retirement when you recount how you spent your gift of time on Earth. Ask yourself if you are proud of what you have done in exchange for the meager raises you have earned. Is that the best way you could have spent your time? Really? Think about what you've done when you want to watch something on television or in the theater, or even in a book, and you get annoyed by ads which you know were put there solely to "capture value from users." think about how enjoyable it is for you to be a user who is having a penny's worth of value extracted, and ask yourself if 20 minutes of your life per hour of television time is worth that penny you provided someone.