I remember there was a bug (or intended behavior?) of people getting their accounts banned for certain kinds of mundane chat messages in live streams and I’m a little spooked that the same will happen with the recent escalation in the adblocking arms race.
I would have said no but then Twitter started charging it’s users so now I’m pretty sure literally anything is possible
Did that actually go into effect yet? I only remember it being floated as a possibility. When I searched “x price” to find out how much they’re charging, the results were a demonstration of how bad of a name “X” is:
- Price of US Steel (NYSE: X)
- Price of the X coin
- Coin
- US Steel
- XPRIZE, an engineering contest thing partially funded by
- Tesla Model X
- Coin
- Coin
- XPRIZE
- iPhone X
Anyway, after refining my search, it looks like requiring a paid subscription to post is being piloted in New Zealand and the Philippines.
The passive-aggressive "I’m just a smol bean multinational media conglomerate and you’ve blocked ads on my page " messages that sometimes make it through my adblocker certainly feel like a precursor to more punitive action.
I’ve never got any of those popups and I use Firefox + uBlock Origin
That’s part of the concern. We never even see the warnings, but they still know we’re blocking ads. Next they shrug and lock our accounts, because “but muh ad revenueee!”