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?

  • Briongloid@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        It’s even worse than that, Facebook and Google have been selling “impressions” that are actually bots for decades at this point.

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        1 year ago

        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.