My impression from friends is that consumer functionality peaked between 2005 and 2010, and the technology companies then destroyed their own products in the process of trying to extract value from them. @orthonormalist has some Opinions about this.
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keep the advertisers happy, shut down APIs that would let people escape having their eyeballs harvested and sold to advertisers, etc. In retrospect I feel like a gullible fool for championing the naive libertarian stance of >>>
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