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?

  • angrynomad
    12·
    2 years ago

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

    • Thagthebarbarian@lemmynsfw.com
      3·
      2 years ago

      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@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      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
        1·
        2 years ago

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

        • Duxon@feddit.de
          1·
          2 years ago

          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
            1·
            2 years ago

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