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.
Any alternatives for YouTube? I feel like that one is the hardest to replace tbh
Not really. PeerTube is a federated video platform, but there’s very little content since there’s no incentive for creators to switch.
The thing that confuses me is that these are all happening at the same time. What gives?
The tech economy’s not doing so well and ai has become the new craze, so investors aren’t throwing money at social media sites, wjich is making them strain for any source of revenue they think might have a chance
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.
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
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?
Trying to lock you out, if you didn’t pay for premium and using an Adblocker instead.
Doesn’t happen to me on firefox using ublock origin. I’ve never seen an ad on youtube and i just got done watching a bunch of music videos.
For me neither, but that feature also isn’t implemented yet. So this could change at anytime.
