The 'Fuck You' Pattern

Post by EamonnMR » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:45 PM UTC

wnkrshm wrote: post #149

EamonnMR wrote: post #116

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Pinterest is by the far the worst because it takes content from the rest of the world and strips away all context. It's the anti-wikipedia, an information black hole.

I hate Pinterest with a passion. If you want to find reference images for whatever topic, all you get is the medium res crap with a 'make an account' pop-up instead of the original source they stole it from. I think alphabet or whatever will acquire it in the near future (or have they already?) because there is just no other explanation for letting Pinterest poison image search that much.

Post by dmkolobov » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

tshaddox wrote: post #162

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #57

"Wow, fuck you. I just wanted to look at cats." "Well, fuck you, too. We're here to sell ads." It's not about dark patterns, that's just a second-order effect. It was never about dark patterns. This is the implied agreement. You understand it, or you don't. And if you don't, I guess you haven't been on the web in the past decade or something. What? You thought it was fair that a company spends millions in technical i…

> What? You thought it was fair that a company spends millions in technical infrastructure and staffing so you can sit at home and spend your time looking at cats for free? Is that really fair? Would there be nowhere to see pictures of cats without their millions of dollars in infrastructure and staffing? Or could it be that their millions of dollars in infrastructure and staffing for selling ads is the reason the go…

Post by throwawayboise » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

mike_d wrote: post #209

marto1 wrote: post #107

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And you just KNOW it's going to disappear. Not immediately of course, some slight visual breakages here and there. Then some hotshot manager is going to point out how it doesn't bring any "value" to the company and how in fact it actually hurts reddit's image. Then it will be gone.

From my time at Reddit I can say the reason it has lasted this long is there are no hotshot managers. Chris Slowe is the hand guiding the ship day to day, with a bunch of really passionate hackers underneath him. They are maintaining like 4 different code bases and keeping feature parity as best they can with a team that could still comfortably go on a ski trip together (compare that to the 60k+ at Facebook). The use…

Post by CodesInChaos » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC

davesmylie wrote: post #224

CodesInChaos wrote: post #216

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Reddit on desktop is still okay. The mobile version of Reddit is deliberately broken in order to force you to use the app. Many subreddits can't be viewed, you can only view the first couple of comments in each thread, the front page is hidden behind a huge nag screen,...

> The mobile version of Reddit is deliberately broken in order to force you to use the app. fyi - if you use old reddit, the mobile site is fine - I've never seen a subreddit blocked or threads truncated. new reddit is a pile of steaming dogsh

Post by mdaniel » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:50 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #154

einpoklum wrote: post #128

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This should help: https://sumtips.com/software/browsers/set-user-agent-on-a-pe...

Hm, nothing for Android - for either ff or chrome?