Claiming there’s savings just isn’t true in reality. If they came out and said it’s to help reduce energy consumption to save the planet I’d be all in, and I’m still in for this, but it just makes it hard to fully support with the gaslighting as you aptly put.
I suspect those are OPs urls, and showing them could allow someone to identify the company or site they work for.
Sad thing is, plenty of people will lap this up as a good thing and see it as a benefit. At least at first, until they realize they have to watch some TV based ads before they watch the ad roll on their YouTube video, followed by the second screen showing some banner ad the whole time. Yick.
From kbin, you can just boost it right from the web site.
While true, they can still give you a hard time. If you simply don’t have one they can’t do much about that.
Seems like a strange way to enforce it, at the user level vs the api client level, unless they’re trying to guard against screen scraper types.
Tinder I get, but Instagram for hookups? Cmon now.
Didn’t even know this was a thing, and since I live by multiple monitors, this makes me glad I’ve held off.