Eggyhead@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweetEnglish
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1 year agoUnless of course he doesn’t want people without credit cards on the platform anymore. I doubt they matter much to him, and perhaps he wants X to exist for the privileged only.
An argument I frequently make about using an ad blocker is that I’d be more comfortable with ads if they weren’t so thirsty for personal information. I still stand by that, and I’m not completely convinced this satisfies that concern. Personal data is still getting slurped up, but now we have the privilege of trusting it’s completely anonymized.