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?
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?
How many mattresses or tires can one person need?
That’s the problem with personalized algorithms, because they don’t understand what people actually needs.
(What people actually need is tickets to “Barbie”)
The advertising companies, Google & Facebook, absolutely do understand this and are happy to mistreat small companies.
The worst part of using Google Search without uBlock is that if I’m just trying to get to a specific website without typing out the full html address, I have to scroll passed the top result which is an advert for the website I already typed.
Google charges companies for customers they already had.
It’s even worse than that. The ad is often a fake version of the website you are looking for. Ublock protects you from phishing and malware.
It’s even worse than that, Facebook and Google have been selling “impressions” that are actually bots for decades at this point.
Very often do I have to bypass the wrong links as well for competitor services I wasn’t looking for, because I explicitly wrote the service I had chosen.