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?

  • RatzChatsubo@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    Chatgpt is using up all their resources and inflating viewership by logging into these sites millions of times. And ad companies are mad that they can’t catch eyeballs anymore so they are pressuring social media giants to search for alternative income

    Just my headcannon

    • bioemerl@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I doubt it. There’s no way one company is inflating the views of a website by a million times. And the users are not going around browsing the internet with Chat GPT in mass. Web scraping is definitely an excuse for them to make these moves, not a reason