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- reddit@lemmy.ml
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- reddit@lemmy.ml
Wasn’t one of the excuses they used for removing 3rd party API usage was the clients were inefficient and resource intensive?
Well, now it’s just their own official client, and yet the server is still down, so…
They didn’t stop allowing 3rd party app usage per se, they just priced it so absurdly high that they all had to stop operating or get multimillion dollar invoices.
…Which is technically just killing 3rd party apps, thinly disguised under a layer of potential profit. Pretty standard soulless corporate practice.
That’s exactly how they sabotaged cannabis in America back in the 1930s. You could technically still get it legally, you just needed a government issued tax stamp from your state, similar to a pack of cigarettess where the state stamp is visible on the bottom. The rub was that nobody was being allowed to purchase the stamps, and if you look at the cost today of stamps, it’s prohibitively expensive. Like a decade ago I checked in Massachusetts and it was about $8 a gram to get individual tax stamps.