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?

  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For me personally, its not even the principle with the bad ads. The reasons I won’t pay for preemium are:

    1. 12$ is too much, since I don’t live in the US and my pay is not at that level.
    2. I won’t pay to still have my data harvested and sold. If I pay for YT, there should be a different privacy policy with not using the data for anything outside video recommendations.
    3. I don’t want to pay for all the antifeatures YT pushes such as removing dislikes, not allowing channel search on mobile, messing with search reaults and recommendations…