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?

  • I Cast FistEnglish
    50•1 year ago

    Not really “all of a sudden”, this has been a long process. The often repeated enshittification thing is fully valid. The short version is:

    • start out
    • grow and expand as much as possible
    • bring in advertisers
    • make everyone depend on your service
    • abuse your powers, since everyone “needs” your service

    Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter are the more obvious culprits, but every big tech company does something similar, one way or another, even hardware companies like Intel or Nvidia

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      nVidia was very popular as the scrappy upstart during the Riva128 and TNT/TNT2 Ultra days. Their popularity with users was very high at the time. Enshittification really got started with them during the early Geforce days and just spiraled around Geforce 3. When they got their asses spanked by ATI with the R300 series they had to de-shittify for a brief time.