[troupo]

> Explain just about all platforms doing revenue adjusting user hostile actions then? Examples include Reddit with the API fees

Bad example. Reddit actions (and Twitter actions) are definitely not due any user hostile actions.

> YT with the Ad Blocking blocking.

This one may be has some merit to it, but we only have Google's word for it, and Google itself doesn't seem to be hurting because of all the bad-no-good ad blocking. Is Youtube hurting? No idea.

[phpisthebest]

>Bad example. Reddit actions (and Twitter actions) are definitely not due any user hostile actions.

The actions are hostile to the users.. Twitter, Reddit, and YT (and others) have changed policies in a way to maximum revenue at the expensive of the users of the platforms.

[gmerc]

It’s price perception shaping. Hey investors look how much we are charging for APIs, that’s how valuable our data is. Can I haz some money