Yes, I noticed that late yesterday evening, my time. When I try to view some of my favorite ones at Twitter it takes me to: https://twitter.com/i/flow/login? I am not going to sign up to access Twitter. Never in a million years!!!!!
Different day... different limits.. To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day
I think they will eventually do similar in other platforms, i.e., if people keep using adblockers and/or not much can be earned from advertising. We're beginning to see similar in Reddit, Youtube, etc. Several will eventually flee to decentralized ones or forums where increasing fragmentation won't help and operations still have to be paid for. Recall that the same Twitter that many thought was doing fine was actually losing money almost every year.
Two other possible reasons why Twitter performance is worse and why its owner is imposing limits: https://512pixels.net/2023/07/around-and-around-we-go/
Soon enough, all of the big ones will put all of their stuff behind paywalls - reverting to the one and only business model that the corporate world has ever known. Cable TV, a slight variation. Good. Because the Internet has been in a steady decline since around 2013, and the way it goes, there's nothing good in the offing. Mrk
I don't see that being a solution against ad blockers. If I am shut out of a site for an ad blocker, my first thought isn't "I need to pay them". People will just stop going there. Ultimately it is probably better for them to let some people slip though with an ad blocker as they will likely share the site with someone that isn't using one. Most of us here use ad blockers but the average person does not seem to be doing so.
I think you misunderstood me. The more of the useless Web goes beyond my reach forever, the better. If all of the useless stuff is behind paywall, and the good Internet is outside that game entirely, awesome! Then we won't need adblockers, fingerprint blockers, etc. Mrk
And now Facebook is doing this. Can't look at anything without signing in. Which I'm not gonna do. I don't know that it merits it's own topic but it's pretty much the same thing as far as I'm concerned.
And as quickly as it came out of nowhere it stopped again. I can now close the popup. I won't be surprised if it comes back. I'll still never sign up, but occasionally a business has info posted that I want to see.
People were paying for analog newspaper and magazines. They are paying for movie streaming. I think eventually people will pay for digital news, and I don't think it is bad. As I get older I value my time more and more which means I more inclined to pay reasonable price than waste my time on trying to figure out what is clickbait and what is not....
People paid for newspapers because people would have to go out and work for news stories, then other people would work at night or the early AM hours to print those newspapers, and then someone would get up early and deliver it to my house. Then there is the fact that most online news is just a repost of someone else's. It's low quality and full of editing errors that nobody proofread or failed at it. It does suck that this makes it very difficult for legitimate news to make money these days and if I am being honest there actually is an online news service I am considering subscribing to so this isn't an argument but according to polls I have seen the common consensus is that people won't pay for both internet access AND content. Also like you said, there is a lot of clickbait. And a whole lot of bias.
I keep myself informed every day on the online news page of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It is a large national daily newspaper in Germany. An important part of the news is published there behind a paywall. I pay €21.80 per month for access to these messages. In return I receive extensive, edited information. I think it's fair that I have to pay for it. Because the work of journalists, editors and technicians etc. has to be paid for. I like to avoid dubious sources of information like X, Facebook, etc.
Overcome the blocking of viewing access to Twitter/X if not signed up: From Twitter to Nitter , and then you can view all posts.
