And yet in the article they reference their Discord channel and Twitter sigh
For example Kagi uses Google and even hosts on GCP - I think Google's technology and people are great, it is just the business model that is rotten and contributes to the deterioration of the web.
And interestingly enough, at least Discord (and to some extent Twitter) are trying to have a business model that does not put more ads down your throat (although admittedly I did cancel my Twitter subscription as unexplainably they still showed ads even when subscribing - you can't sit on two chairs).
Twitter isn’t really trying to do that. It’s just something the owner likes to claim, but what he’s actually done is the opposite:
- Hired a CEO from the ad world
- Increased personal data collection (with updated Terms of Service to reflect that)
- Limited tweet access without login (those views would be harder to target with ads)
As a Tesla customer I’m fed up with this person’s endless lies. Seems like you got a taste of it with your Twitter subscription too.