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So, twitter, Reddit, Imgur, and now Gfycat are all killing itself
Has the internet bubble finally popped?
You mean popped again? It has already popped back in 2002 with the dot-com bubble bursting. Seems investors never learn.
The privately-owned for-profit Internet is starting to pop. User-driven FOSS will reign supreme.
Wait what's happening with imgur?
Removing porn and all images not uploaded from an imgur account
But why the porn?
Nsfw images can't be monitised with ads.
Don't forget about YouTube! https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/youtubes-test-run-of-the-three-strikes-youre-out-policy-against-ad-blockers-seems-like-a-bit-much
Been wondering how they detect how many videos you've watched without being logged in.
Cookies can be cleared, IPs can be changed, and if we all use something like the Mullvad Browser fingerprinting will be far more difficult.
I just spin up new virtual machines, with different flavors of linux. They're all fairly interchangable at this point.