YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?

  • Thagthebarbarian@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    Imagine being a tech company and using a stat like the number of emails received daily to justify pushing human users away from the product…

    That’s what I see with all these companies.

    They see a huge user base by numbers but can’t recognize that it’s 99% boots and spam, thinking that the 1% real users are going to pay to interact with bot spam