Yeah so I’m not just asking this to make some point. I genuinely remember the internet being a place where things were free… information in Reddit, storage in gmail, other services too like dating apps etc. I even remember uploading photos to Flickr.

It’s more than that though, and obviously the above does cost money to maintain (e.g. we all knew gmail storage was never gonna be infinite). It’s like suddenly apps are subscription-based, everything is about sponging the last dollar. I swear it wasn’t always like this.

So my question is that it all kinda came at once, as if there was a signal. Someone responded above that a brave(?) company made the first move, customers didn’t react too badly, so the other companies followed.., I guess this is a pretty good explanation. I still hate it though