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Couldn’t have picked a better time to come up with an outrageously greedy change to an existing service huh

Yeah and the majority are going to stay. Twitter is slowly dying, but it’s not going to see an immediate plunge that makes it irrelevant overnight.

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That’s not a nitter link >:(

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Oh, I didn’t even notice that I forgot to convert it. Fixed it now.

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It’s a false dichotomy though since the internet used to largely be neither full of trackers nor pay-for, without being a public utility

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Pretty sure they’d both sell your data and make you pay, but who knows

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Yeah, plus payment info is also pretty significant in terms of identifying information, unless they were willing to provide gift cards in physical stores or something. There would need to be a huge legislative push to get them to give up data collection at the same time for any net benefit.

What scares me more than Twitter pulling these stunts is YouTube. Like, Twitter going down would hurt a lot of artists and creatives and break apart a lot of connections, and it’d be pretty harsh on a lot of people. YouTube going down would be a calamity across government, education, technology, entertainment, and more as billions of tutorials, educational clips, public announcements, etc are wiped off the face of the planet. And the fact that it needs ads and data harvesting to continue existing has possibly been one of the biggest drivers for Google to continue pushing features that lock down the web browser. There is nothing that can stop it except some massive government mobilization (which we can’t exactly trust the US government to do alone).

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i dont get the comments about killing twitter, its literally been incredibly important for organizing and would be a big loss for many organizations unfortunately

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Yeah no thats actually true it was also incredibly important for getting the truth out during the first wave of BLM.

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Elon musk saw how fast the ceo of unity was destroying faster than he could destroy twitter

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Shit, what is going on with unity now?

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WAIT are they charging devs whenever a steam user uninstalls and reinstalls a game, forever?? lol

Edit: AND THEYRE TRYING TO MAKE IT RETROACTIVE?? LOLOLOL 2023 CEO BRAIN STRIKES AGAIN

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