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KD_14 ,

I’m ok with the YouTube one. Twitter dumb. Reddit not that bad but should have just charged people.

ItsaB3AR ,

Yeah, I already have premium to support creators I like to watch because I hat ads. Twitter can just fuck itself, never used it much at all. For Reddit I would have paid for Apollo annually if that was what was required to keep it going, but it’s apparent that making people pay a fair share wasn’t the goal.

BoastfulDaedra ,

YouTube I get, though I don’t much appreciate it, it’s hard to argue with. I have a premium account just for the music, and it’s reasonable for me.

What I don’t care for is their over-aggressive recommendation system.

lycanrising ,

free money has dried up, now they need to monetise your habits.

Ainiriand ,

Their cash overlords want returns on their investments.

FelipeFelop ,
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It’s happening in other areas like entertainment (see Netflix pricing, Paramount + renewing then cancelling shows etc)

One thing is that this sort of behaviour leads to an opportunity for competitors. Look at Twitter, a few years ago only a small non-profit would have thought to challenge them. But now as Twitter slowly disintegrates even Meta are getting in on the act.

The same thing is happening with Reddit and we’re seeing the very start of similar challengers to YouTube that don’t have the issues of e.g. Odysee

Sanctus ,
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We have reached the stage where the snakes have grown large enough that they must prey on their own tails, for there is nothing left to eat.

kromem ,

No tech burst.

It’s just a cold recession. No one is admitting it, including consumers who keep spending away savings.

But companies are aware of it enough they are tightening purses preparing for harder times ahead.

Of course, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If everyone makes their products worse chasing this quarter’s dollar, and people leave, those companies are going to have a harder time.

Especially as it becomes easier and easier to compete against them at scale.

Just wait until new feature requests and bug reports for something like Lemmy can be handled within moments by AI at dirt cheap pricing.

A very interesting future awaits around the bend.

angrynomad ,

Just wait till you have to pay per email. You’re not still using Gmail are you?

Thagthebarbarian ,

Imagine being a tech company and using a stat like the number of emails received daily to justify pushing human users away from the product…

That’s what I see with all these companies.

They see a huge user base by numbers but can’t recognize that it’s 99% boots and spam, thinking that the 1% real users are going to pay to interact with bot spam

Duxon ,

Why switch now if I could switch later (if they would really monetize it with fees, which I doubt)? It would be a pain in any case.

angrynomad ,

It’s free because you’re the product. All that content is scanned

Duxon ,

Paranoid much?

Google Mail does not scan the content of your emails for the purpose of showing you ads. However, Google Mail does use some information about your emails, such as your email address and the sender and recipient addresses, to improve its spam and phishing filters.

You can control how much information Google Mail collects about your emails by adjusting your privacy settings. For example, you can choose to have Gmail not scan your email attachments for viruses.

Just read their general terms.

angrynomad ,

I work in cybersecurity, yes I’m paranoid, because companies do abuse your data.

yrmitz ,

Because usualle the greed, money and power corrupts, no matter how good you are in the beginning.

Liquid ,

Everyone’s rushing to implement/improve AI. AI needs a ton of data, Reddit/Twitter are good available sources. Reddit/Twitter would prefer to sell this data as opposed to having it gathered from under them by bots, for free.

I think that’s why Twitter and Reddit are rushing to restrict access (directly or through the API).

Youtube are just aggressively serving you ads, and limiting ways for you to circumvent ads. I think that’s just what they do as they have the market sewn up

iquanyin ,
@iquanyin@lemmy.world avatar

i e read this mostly because of AI…

aarRJaay ,
@aarRJaay@lemmy.world avatar

They’ve got you - you’re addicted and/or locked in and the hastle of moving to alternatives is too great. The short answer is : ‘They no longer need to be favorable, they have you, your data, and your friends and it’s too much effort to go somewhere else’

cqthca ,

SOXL - an EFT for US semicondutor companies is doing well.

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