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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You forgot discord and the username changes, which happened a few weeks ago

and now they're advertising stuff like subscription tiers and server shops, which makes me feel like they're using a completely different service than I am

So when are we readying the Matrix homeservers?

...and getting Element to care about chat UX rather than throwing Matrix at any other problem they can think of (no we do not need a vr metaverse but FOSS)