Mixture of bribe and getting scammed.

Aren’t they now based in Estonia since when the company was established?

What is weird is that engagement without paid boosting is now mostly decimated on twitter. And the part that is boosted gets mostly engaged by bots. The situation is frankly ridiculous and no competent organization or personnel should be giving anything but RSS one way update there.

Maybe they can monetize API usage while keeping GUI usage free?

Companies are subject to the places they operate in and not following it could have consequences. I remember Guardian having to censor stuff due to UK court order. My gripe is that they are going diving into the military contract business that they had control over but still got into due to money.

Volatility of a business based on Google Maps seems to be very painful from observing GeoGuessr.

Amazing! I like the neutral wording as well. It would allow us to choose which product/services to boycott much easier. While products from isr will be boycotted by many, something niche like boycott of a product due to high tariff by one country over another will also be possible.

It was one company, and the students had blocked access to a revenue generator for the Uni.