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

lionkoy5555@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 1572 points –

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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This is not what this is about, YouTube will be implementing a three-strikes policy if you are using ad blockers: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778879/youtube-videos-disabling-ad-blockers-detection

Ok, ad blockers may have to move to downloading and bit-bucketing ads to make it appear to Youtube's servers that we have watched them. Worst case we may have to live with 30s pauses in videos.

Well would you look at that. I was not aware of this, thanks for letting me know!

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