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I start to realize how synchronized big tech is acting currently
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.
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.
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.
Its a arms race with nukes, but they test them on their most valuable users... (besides Windows, most people contributing to Windows use Linux themselves...)
It very much feels like we've fully moved into a new phase of the locked down internet. You forgot Netflix's crackdown on password sharing, imgur deleting NSFW and anonymous content, increasingly ridiculous subscription prices (youtube tv went from $35 to $73 in 4 years). The corporations have us locked in and now it's time to squeeze.