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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.
Whenever I put a google search down, and see one page of Pinterest on there I immediately go back to the search box and go for; “-site:pinterest.*”. I absolutely hate that site with a passion.
"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…
Kinda offtopic but Instagram's ads changed my attitude towards ads, and my attitude towards Facebook's creepy level of insight into my life and personality. If they have that data anyway -- and hundreds of companies do -- I might as well benefit from it, and Instagram's ads were the first ones that I actually found interesting. First of all, it was obvious when something was an ad. Second, they weren't intrusive or o…
Do I like this behaviour - No. But am I not surprised from a company, as mentioned, hasn't exactly supported anything web/open over its existence. I mean look at the never-resolved feud between twitter and instagram that means you stillllll can't post pics to twitter from Instagram or see preview cards on twitter of IG links etc --all because of a spat like 10 years ago.
But not posting nerdy rants about how I have to use bots and shit to workaround logging into a site I am apparently interested in the content of, but don't want to actually use or participate in.
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old.reddit.com is still around, for now, and does not have any of this garbage.
old.reddit.com is clearly beginning to rot: 1. The new Reddit seems to have a different markdown parser which allows surrounding unindented code with ``` lines. This doesn't render on old Reddit. 2. New Reddit seems to be saving links with escaped underscores and correcting for it at render time? I've started to see people posting broken links like https://example.com/some\_path\_with\_underscores when it should be h…
I haven't fully tested what combinations don't work, but it feels like the beginning of the end of old.reddit.com.
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Yeah, it's really infuriating.. Reddit consumed most of the cool niche forums on the internet, and now it's slowly mashing them all up into a bland Facebook clone
A lot of those niche forums were already being killed by VerticalScope and InternetBrands. It’s a lot of what lead to Reddit’s popularity in the first place.
It's common on many websites.
Ublock doesn't remove that rule but you can add it for each site.
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And then something else will replace it. They'll digg themselves their own grave.
Maybe Ycombinator will incubate a rival that uses the HN model.
Facebook was doing this for a while on business pages, but it looks like they've backed out of it now. Around 2 years ago you were only permitted to see content 'above the fold'. Scroll down to the second page of content and you saw an undismissable modal covering the entire page. Happily(!) you now have the option to dismiss the modal and continue scrolling, but the modal is shown for every new business page you vis…
I love instagram. It's the best social media site. Last time I checked, I couldn't even make an account from my desktop computer. I'm not gonna even try to install their app on my G-free phone. When a friends sends me a link to Instagram, I know that I don't need to click on it -- the thumbnail contains all the information that I'd ever see without creating an account. When news articles consist of a bunch of embedde…
Pinterest and Reddit are not better these days. The amount of things you can view on reddit on your phone without creating an account or installing the app is dwindling daily. Every time my wife sends me a Pinterest link I just ask her to screenshot it as I can't see shit on the default mobile page. I don't even know why Google continues to allow them in the results when there is clear-cut policies around showing som…