I must admit, I never considered "keeping people away from your platform" and "self-DDos" as possible candidates, for my social media bullshit bingo
I must admit, I never considered "keeping people away from your platform" and "self-DDos" as possible candidates, for my social media bullshit bingo
YouTube isn't nearly as much as the other two, there's an arms race starting with ad blockers, but Reddit and Twitter are on a whole other level of nastyness.
I remember the first time someone sent me a YouTube link. Opened up AOL Messenger and a buddy from school asked me if I had heard panic at the disco. Sent over a link with I write sins not tragedies Found Smosh right after. Early YouTube was great
The thing that confuses me is that these are all happening at the same time. What gives?
Tech companies have been working on a "screw profit, focus on growth" thing for about a decade now, living off of Venture Capital influxes and the like. The VC money was slowly drying up before COVID, but COVID made a short-term boom in the tech sector, and a lot of businesses overexpanded during this time.
Now, the growth in the sector is slowing, and all that VC money is really, really drying up fast. So you have a lot of companies making similarly "bad" decisions at the same time because they're chasing growth that just isn't possible anymore. So now they're turning to tricks and scams to squeeze more value out of their userbase, whether that's locking up APIs so they can charge more money for data access (Twitter, Reddit) or just straight turning off services because they cost too much (Snapchat shutting down gfycat after buying them).
Essentially, the casino that was the tech sector is finally waking up with a hangover and realizing that maybe it made a lot of really poor bets, and now they're scrambling to break even so their wife won't know how much money they threw away on hookers and blow.
That indeed makes sense. Thanks for the explanation :)
Yeah, same! As if they made an arrangement about this.
To be fair, having Musk at the helm of one of those should be considered cheating at bullshit bingo. I don't think there's a single week without Musk not doing anything completely idiotic that further sinks the company. Firing programmers by line of code? Answering mails from the press with a poop emoji? Not paying rent for the offices? Twitter blue and its... I don't even know what's that anymore? And the list goes on and on and on.
Revanced manager has the ability to patch twitter, YouTube, twitch, spotify and tiktok APIs. Never see an ad at all these days.
They are coming for that shit too just you wait
The constant co-evolution of control and resistance.
What did YouTube do tho?
They're rolling out blocking videos for people who use adblockers. Google's ad business is finally saying "no" to anyone who tries to get around watching ads.