It would put a hard cap on growth as well, not sure if this is horrible. maybe instead of having one giant youtube or facebook we will have thousands, maybe millions, of small ones.
Or is this just the luddite in me talking?
I thought, OK, I tripped up their IP security rules. I'll just call them and get it sorted out. Except... you can't call eBay anymore. Their phone lines are a recording that tell you to login first. When I login, all the support options for my now suspended account are missing. There's no messaging, phone, text, chat, or email options provided to me. Only an endless loop of support articles.
Cross-checking this against my friend's account, he has all the options available and I do not. So in essence, they've shut me out from all communication and I can't ever get this account recovered. Many big companies moved to this communication model during covid, and it's extremely disheartening when something goes very wrong like this. If this is the new normal, we need to make it illegal.
For those who don’t get the joke:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/ex-ebay-employees-sent-blood...
I'm just really impressed they banned the same account 3 times in a day. That implies that I somehow circumvented the ban twice, without even knowing about the first two times.
Maybe this is enforceable, but I'm certainly nowhere near clever enough to imagine how it could be enforced and given the state of things like drug and human trafficking I'm not convinced a politician will be clever enough either.
Joking aside, it's not like automatic content suggestions are perfect, they tend to lock you into whatever you consumed lately, ultimately causing things like Elsagate[0]
For music or films I rarely use recommendations any more and go back to the old school thing of reading reviews from people who know the material and can compare and draw non obvious parallels with other artists and works.