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?

  • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
    201·
    1 year ago

    Wouldnt even be surprised if Musk wanted to convince huffman to do this to split the outrage.

    LIke how all the tech companies did layoffs at the same time this year

    • TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      171·
      1 year ago

      And before anyone says this sounds like a baseless conspiracy theory, remember that the big tech companies got fined a few years ago for having an agreement not poach each other’s employees to keep wages down. They do talk to each other, and for things that matter.

      • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        yeah I just mean I think musk might’ve manipulated him a bit, or they had both wanted to do things to piss of their communities respecitvely and agreed to do it ‘together’