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[–] ComplexLotus 50 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I start to realize how synchronized big tech is acting currently

  • google experiments with blocking youtube users with ad blockers
  • twitter blocks unregistered users, heavily advertises its app
  • reddit blocks api and 3rd party access, heavily advertises its app
  • microsoft creates windows 11 lets windows 10 users with old hardware insecure

Is this because they all act in unison? Or is it the general ecnomic situation (low prime rates by the central bank) of the American tech giants that leads them to "coincidentally" making the same decisions? My suspicion is its the latter combined with the power they accumulated over the past decade.

[–] Brunbrun6766 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think its just an arms race to capture all of your data for themselves, more data they get the more they can sell and profit off of.

[–] beizhia 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That definitely makes sense, especially now that they're seeing how valuable all that data is to train AI. Even stackoverflow is having a bit of an ordeal with their mods.

[–] R51 3 points 1 year ago

it makes me very hesitant to even want to post on here. All of our conversations will be fed to an AI farm.

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