Why all of a sudden tech companies are not being favorable to their users?
Why all of a sudden tech companies are not being favorable to their users?
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?
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The answer is AI. Amongst other things. Reddit is about to go public and wants everyone on their main app for advertising and tracking. Twitter is dealing with hosting issues with Google.
Plus AI companies are extracting content from Twitter and Reddit to train their AI models like chatGPT which is a huge money maker, and these platforms aren't getting any money from it so they're trying to make it more difficult to get access to it. They want companies like OpenAI and Stability and Microsoft and Google to pay large sums of money for access to their content to train AI on.
The thing with AI is that it is both a parasite to the content it is trained on and an alternative to it because people who ask AI don't ask in forums
These tech giants are searching for a way to keep everyone happy but I honestly don't see any
Reddit just realized it has been sitting on a pile of gold the entire time and now it wants to reap its rewards
Makes me wish there was a way to force them to remove everything I ever posted on their site.
But... It's their site and I put the shit there. Who knew it would come to this, though?
You can use powerDeleteSuite to delete everything from your reddit account
Word on the street is reddit just restores the comments and posts you mass delete. Haven't tried myself so I'm not sure but that's what I've been seeing around lemmy.
Not in my experience, only a handful of comments were restored after 2 weeks in my account, just delete them manually and you're good to go
Good to know, thanks. I think the people who did have that happen used reddit delete suite or one of those
I know there have been some programs that rewrite your comments with other content. This makes it so that Reddit can't restore what you had there originally.
You can tho
It's easy to work around the AI issue by providing the devs an API key for Apollo, RIF, etc. and charging a reasonable price. Instead Spez took the nuclear option like all platforms these days. They don't give a single fuck about the users.
Anyway it's been happening for years like others have mentioned. Once stakeholders are involved if you have to ask a question the answer is always money