TL;DR:
Any account on a big tech site is no longer something to take for granted, but has become a time bomb. It could be terminated at random, at any time, without warning.
I have the feeling that the initial openness of big tech products (YouTube, Reddit, etc.) was just a bait to grow.
Now that they have reached critical mass, they can betray users as much as they feel like, through censorship, planned obsolescence and more shady tactics.
For example, why do you think (((Google))) actually killed call recording since Android 9, despite of many ? Not to mention their file access control restrictions that accumulated since 2014, which causes third-party developers of superior software to be usurped by the vendor's precluded and functionally inferior software (the Apple way), possibly for control.
In 2007, Faggit joked about , but not long after, they ████████ ████████ █████████ █████⬛
Since the mid-2010s, Twitter is increasingly extorting people into providing their phone number, or else their account is locked and suspended after a week when the user fails to comply. In many countries, anti-terrorism laws demand people to facially identify themselves when activating a new phone number. It's damn obvious what this is for. (And Parlér does the same thing. ) And (((Instagram))) has severely restricted their API since 2016.
YouTube: https://poal.co/s/YouTube/239116
YouTube also likes to make account suspensions under the guise of technical issues.
###TL;DR:
Any account on a big tech site is no longer something to take for granted, but has become a time bomb. It could be terminated at random, at any time, without warning.
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I have the feeling that the initial openness of big tech products (YouTube, Reddit, etc.) was just a bait to grow.
Now that they have reached critical mass, they can betray users as much as they feel like, through censorship, planned obsolescence and more shady tactics.
For example, why do you think (((Google))) actually killed call recording since Android 9, despite of many [legitimate uses](https://nllapps.com/apps/acr/android9.htm)? Not to mention their file access control restrictions that accumulated since 2014, which causes third-party developers of **superior** software to be usurped by the vendor's precluded and functionally inferior software (*the Apple way*), possibly for control.
In 2007, Faggit joked about [censoring unpopular posts](http://web.archive.org/web/1/http://blog.reddit.com/2007/04/reddit-now-doubleplusgood.html), but not long after, they ████████ ████████ █████████ █████⬛
Since the mid-2010s, Twitter is increasingly extorting people into providing their phone number, or else their account is locked and suspended after a week when the user fails to comply. In many countries, *anti-terrorism* laws demand people to facially identify themselves when activating a new phone number. It's damn obvious what this is for. (And Parlér does the same thing. [Don't trust them.](https://poal.co/s/Jewspiracy/201698)) And (((Instagram))) has severely restricted their API since 2016.
YouTube: https://poal.co/s/YouTube/239116
YouTube also likes to make account suspensions under the guise of *technical issues*.
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