Step 1. Kill the most popular class of clients of an API, one of the few that could afford to pay money for access.
Step 2. Start charging for the API.

But hey at least 1 weeks notice this time…

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@paul I don’t get it. Telemetry, ads, and brand image aside what could they lose by allowing third party clients like they did before? Besides, Telemetry and ad revenues could be compensated by charging for the use of their API… like they started doing? Maybe i’m not understanding something.

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