Why all of a sudden tech companies are not being favorable to their users?

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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?

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It's so common there's even a term for it now, "enshittification"

To quote the article that describes it:

"Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ The source is about TikTok but the author has gone on to describe how this applies to basically every modern tech company in various interviews.

Cory doctorow is an incredible (journalist?) (blogger?) idk something, his posts are good

His blog "Boing boing" was a luminary of the early blogosphere when that was a thing people believed would replace traditional media. He was very active with the EFF, copyleft/CC culture, the early maker scene. He was an okay novellist too ! All in all if you grabbed a copy of "Wired" from 2006 there's a 100% chance his name would be mentioned at least once in it.

I first encountered him through the "This Week In Tech" podcast where he's a frequent guest. I'm not sure what he is off the top of my head either but he's brilliant

Writer is a good catch-all, especially since he's written some banger novels too. I read Little Brother right on the cusp of becoming an actual leftist and it had a big impact on me.

Here, now, with the Fediverse, we are going Little Brother on enshittfied social media!

Viva la Révolution !