I think one of the major reasons they wanted to close the free APIs was to prevent data scraping for AI models without paying the big dollars. Of course that also meant users would be limited to the service’s own apps with their own ads so it’s a bit of a win-win for them.

I’d imagine the only people paying the insane API prices are the AI/ML companies (edit: like google with its Reddit deal)

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I can’t afford a retirement plan but I expect to die in the water wars or fascist USA invasion of Canada anyway C:

Edit: Je suis cinquante par cent Québécois et j’ai met un malédiction sur tous les Américains

^je suis désolé @ les vrai québécoise et la Français pour mon très mauvais français, je suis un anglophone malheureusement^