They were like this before also, but you’re right: now they’re much more overt and like they’re pushed or hurried by something… And that something is the prospect of recession. They’re not publicly announcing it, but their liquid assets are running low and they hit the ceiling for growth. YouTube is trying to maximize their exposure and revenue for ads by cracking down on adblockers; Twitter and Musk doing the dumbest decision just for money, the last one for the rate limitation being connected with not paying the bills to Google Cloud; Reddit introducing 3rd party API usage fees for, maybe, the same reason… They ran out of “smart” and covert solutions to milk their product, partners and clients of money and they would rather go down in greed. And they won’t even be directly responsible due to those golden parachutes