I thought Reddit and Twitter were pretty clearly responses to the massive data grab by OpenAI that let them train their language models.

I assume there are other factors involved too, like Reddit trying to force everyone to use its app. But I don't think it's coincidence this happened not long after ChatGPT took off.

... Though now that you mention it, I wonder if there's a connection between Netflix stamping out password sharing and Youtube getting serious about ads.

As with all innovation that was started at the behest of public (taxpayer) initiatives, companies are initially greeted with wide open frontiers - new horizons to exploit, extract, and dominate.

In the fledging stages of a startup, they will sing praises of openness and public good and the importance of community. However, once they have reached a certain point they pull the ladder up behind them, close the door, and claim they did it all based on their own ingenuity and merit.

Were it not for the effort of the public - through the creation of the internet, and the average person putting into making content and value on the internet - these companies would not exists. Don't forget that. People; regular people, are what make the internet a place worth visiting and using. These companies are just extracting from the richness that we generate.

Twitter was apparently just a glitch. I'm told it's tricky to run a half billion user website with a skeleton crew.

or is there some underlying factor causing these services to all tighten their respective nooses simultaneously

I'm guessing, uhh, money.

Also Netflix gaining more subscribers after killing password sharing. Everyone saying how they'd cancel that day and grumbling. Silent majority said "der....okay...I'll make an account" and Netflix is happy as hell.

I'm very disappointed with the majority of users of these services enabling this shit over the last year. Screwing themselves and everyone. I genuinely don't understand it. I'm astounded Twitter is still going strong. They've done everything they could to piss off daily users and upended the entire structure. But addicts can't break away to a different service.

I didn’t even think about the messages people are sending these companies by not leaving their respective platforms in response to hostile audience/consumer policy changes.

They know now they can get away with it with minimal impact on their bottom line …

Yeah. By this point, I don't really care for the people that want to stay on the sinking ship and live under ultra-capitalist dystopia anymore. If they want to remain so badly on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, etc., then just bloody stay there and have your minds enslaved by ruthless mega corporations

Except that CCs make almost no money from ads - unless you're already big and produce lots of clickbait videos.

High quality produced videos are discouraged with these incentives. successful CCs have switched to sponsorships and merchandise and Patreon since a long time because it's much more stable and sustainable for them. And by the time they can make enough from ads via YouTube they're big enough to have good sponsorship deals anyways.

I think the problem is that it isn't just tech savvy people doing anymore, because if it was just a small group of people, they wouldn't care. There's gotta be a significant % that use ad blocker, and I'd expect that to be a whole number at minimum

I like the "That company looses money every year!" and when you look into it they profited some ungodly amount and spent it on 'infrastructure' and bonuses. Then go 'woe is us, we can hardly make a dime!' while treating everyone near them like shit. (Looking at you DD)

This is entirely speculation, but there's a possibility that all that money spent on ads/marketing aren't translating to returns that were expected. That means pressure on marketing to be more effective. Then the marketing leans on the platforms they are using to be more effective at getting user engagement. This is when YouTube starts requiring more and more user-unfriendly tactics to show proof of engagement so they don't lose ad money. When in reality, with all of this, no matter the marketing strategy, nobody has any money anymore to buy the shit that's being pushed and are probably just getting upset and abstaining from buying the most annoying ads' products. If I see company X push the same thing 25 times in a day, and I can't afford it, I still won't buy it. If I ever can afford it, I probably don't want to buy it later either because I felt like hostage for so long.

Thanks. Not quite for snug.moe but I went on there, clicked a video and the bgm they used reminded me of a certain game OST I love. They linked to the source on soundcloud and now I have a massive playlist to look forward to.

https://soundcloud.com/...

They ban on a browser fingerprint probably, not on the IP, otherwise the whole University which is behind one IP would be blocked at once for example.

IPv6 when?

Same, gives me a moment to think.

correct. i was just explaining that pi holes block outgoing requests, not incoming traffic.