What's the mindset behind forcing a user to create an account to view the media on a page? For example an artist I like posts their art on Instagram and Twitter but I can't look at it unless I create an account. What's the dumb corporate rationale behind this? I have seen this on so many sites you can't even see what's there without an account? Doesn't it just scare users away? I know it certainly does for me. If I have to log in just to view a page I don't want to view the page.
Meta's business model is about collecting user data for advertisers. All of their services are a means to that end.
I think OP is talking about "the meta" in the
sense, but you're right when it comes to any of these sites.
Correct. I know the overlap between cool gamers and techno-nerds isn't a flat circle, but i probably should have used a different word because I genuinely forget that META is Facebook and Alphabet is Google. How are these motherfuckers taking such basic words away from us![agony-acid agony-acid](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/ce4acac2-add7-4ee7-8c62-fe15767fb35f.png)
It's either basic ass words or the big evil shit from fantasy and sci-fi novels lmao