I feel torn about how sites (like reddit/Twitter mentioned in the article) are going about their monetization. Surely these companies can not run these sites for free long term - they have to make money somehow. As a user, all of these changes negatively impact me and devalue their platforms but what alternative is there? Everywhere I go now I see either login/pay walls, my data is getting packaged up and sold off to third parties, or a mix of both.
Free and open web is what we all want but how can massive services like reddit or Twitter operate long term while losing so much money?