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?

  • TechnoBabble@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The only thing you can’t do with an open API is exploit every dollar of value that passes through your service.

    The main difference between a Silicon Valley API and a FOSS API, is the SV API is trying to get tons of people rich as fuck by exploiting you. The FOSS API can live long and prosper by simply asking for donations every once in a while, or engaging in very light-handed monetization.

    There are like a million little nuances to this whole issue, and the lack of nuance is what Silicon Valley relies on to convince people that they must pillage their users, but that’s the gist.

    • Anon819450514@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      My post was being more ironic and sarcastic. You explain and nuanced it well in your post. I think people can’t read between the lines sometimes.