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?

    • lionkoy5555@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      english is not my first language, maybe I should’ve used a different phrase but my context is recent events

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        1 year ago

        You used the phrase correctly, and your English is great!

        The above commenter was rudely stating that your observation is not correct as it’s has always been this way.

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        1 year ago

        It isn’t a new thing.

        As soon as the realisation that a dollar could be made, then every dollar was squeezed out of it.

        The dot com bubble burst of the 90s was one of the earliest, but not THE earliest example of this.