So edgy
I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
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#252Blocking comments from various sites is an amazing idea. Are there any extensions anyone can recommend for doing this comprehensively across all the popular sites / 3rd party comment engines?
I often browse with umatrix blocking all third-party js, so I tend to whitelist some of those on a per—site basis. That might partially work for you.
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another sinister way of doing this is having users solve captchas in order to comment and keeping a badness score of the troublemakers. Then pretend they failed the captchas at a rate proportionally to their score.
If that's going on then what on earth have I done to offend Google?
Not using Chrome?
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always thought people might catch on, since no one is engaging with their takes. I'm curious if letting bots do some markov responses might keep them in the dark a little longer.
I see it far less frequently now (thanks @dang!), but a few years ago it wasn't uncommon to see shadow banned HN users continuing to post for years , talking into the void. Sometimes I'd look into their post history and so many of them had been banned for utterly trivial reasons, it was pretty sad.
If I see an account that's been shadowbanned for years, and has consistently posted appropriately for maybe several months, I report it via the contact address.
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#255I add 1 second of latency when a Chrome user visits my website.
And I already convinced my boss to switch to Firefox.
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#256I'm a self-diagnosed completionist and I hate the infinite scroll so much that I developed a mental habit that helps me work around it. When I visit a site with infinite scroll (e.g. YouTube or new Reddit) I immediately scroll down until the first loading spinner (e.g. by pressing the End key). At this point I stop and go back up processing the items in reverse order. This might sound silly, but it gives me a sense o…
I just don't scroll down and accept that what I can see on my screen is all that is worth looking at.
yep. same strategy. if it doesn't show up in one or two screens worth of contents then i am probably going to miss it.
the thing that bugs me now are those mini video players that follow you on every page...
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that's going on then what on earth have I done to offend Google?
Not using Chrome?
Is it just me or has the web's compatibility with Firefox taken a nosedive recently? It used to just be my employer's HR software that was chrome-only, but in the last year my power utility website, apartment complex website, and even major websites like https://www.deviantart.com/ (which I was trying to visit just 10 minutes ago) have broken in Firefox but not chrome. Badly, too. These aren't "the layout is different in FF and nobody noticed" bugs, they're "site infinitely redirects" bugs or "login button doesn't submit" bugs.
Debug steps: turn off bitwarden, my only extension. Never helps. Ctrl+Shift+Del cookies. Never helps. Sigh, open chrome. Works first time.
Is it just me or did the web up and dump firefox just when it started to get good?
:(
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We did the same thing at reddit. If someone was abusing the site we would redirect them at the load balancer to a single server with an extra sleep in it.
Then you did the same for your mobile users, degrading their experience until they use an app or leave.
jedberg was one of the good ones. There's no need to belittle him like that.
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another sinister way of doing this is having users solve captchas in order to comment and keeping a badness score of the troublemakers. Then pretend they failed the captchas at a rate proportionally to their score.
If that's going on then what on earth have I done to offend Google?
You haven't opted in. For the modern web, using it without JavaScript and the requisite accounts isn't a supported option.
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just wanted a jab at reddit, cuz this week I can't even browse it because "this community is available in the app" (after years of marke... mental abuse of asking me to use an app). Nothing against the guy, he used "we", I used "you", I'm sure he is a cool guy, and I hope its the charitable interpretation.
FWIW, I feel your pain as a daily user of the site myself. I hold no ill will against you for taking it out on me. When I left I specifically said that users can continue to blame me for all problems. :) I wasn't aware that some communities are now limited to the app only. I haven't run into any yet. But that sucks.
Try with every community, Reddit must really dislike mobile users. I do wonder if this scheme was introduced to monetize users, either way it sucks.