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.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I would have said no but then Twitter started charging it’s users so now I’m pretty sure literally anything is possible

    • ped_xing [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      7 months ago

      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:

      1. Price of US Steel (NYSE: X)
      2. Price of the X coin
      3. Coin
      4. US Steel
      5. XPRIZE, an engineering contest thing partially funded by melon-musk
      6. Tesla Model X
      7. Coin
      8. Coin
      9. XPRIZE
      10. 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.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    The passive-aggressive "I’m just a smol bean multinational media conglomerate and you’ve blocked ads on my page deeper-sadness " messages that sometimes make it through my adblocker certainly feel like a precursor to more punitive action.