I'm allowed to view approximately 20 images free per day before Instagram forces me to a login screen.
The 'Fuck You' Pattern
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Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern
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> Ironically, a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot and suddenly all those modal/nag screens disappear. Hmmmm. Now that I think of it I'm fairly sure that serving different content to Googlebot compared to what you served ordinary users used to be a good way to call down the wrath of the SEO master upon your (or your clients) website. Then again, that was before. Back when Google was a nice co…
In fact it's still forbidden by Google ... Except if you are very large like Pinterest
Filed under the "okay for me not for thee" google policy.
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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…
> Ironically, a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot and suddenly all those modal/nag screens disappear. Cloudflare slaps you for this, though.
I'll take a Capcha over a fuck-you paywall.
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#594Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
for Reddit, you can "sign up" with a bogus email address and still interact (browse, join, comment, vote, message) freely. the only possible downside is it asks you to verify your email address every launch, but I don't see this as a downside since I am using Reddit anonymously, and it is easily dismissed. been doing this for over a year now
Still allows them to identify you over the course of several sessions, which allows them to de-anonymize you.
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> The phone browser works just great. No, it is not. I can not access any subreddit without installing an app (which I am not going to do).
Sorry... I literally do this every day of my life, across several devices. I'm just on Firefox on Android, it's not like it's a weird setup or anything. What are you running that reddit won't let you into a subreddit?
I have the same experience as OP which is that many subreddits or individual posts are inaccessible without creating an account. If you're looking at cat gifs you will probably get by with the occasional nag screen but some will outright force you out of the page.
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Reddit's new UI is still hilariously terrible. The day they remove old.reddit.com is the day I stop using the site. Who the hell thinks what I want when I click on an article is to bring it into a related article feed with 1.5 comments showing? If I accidentally click outside of the article area the whole thing vanishes with no way to get back where I was. I had thought these issues would be obvious and they would cl…
The back button is broken, too. Was it that hard to bring you back to the comment you were reading when you clicked the link? Guess so.
Not broken.. working just as intended unfortunately. It is a lot harder to remove that functionality entirely to force users to stay on a signup modal.
Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern
#597You can go ahead and block FB before FB blocks you.
With a simple /etc/hosts update like that:
Several years without FB and its scripts anywhere. Never regret about such decision.
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Yep, seconded. Stopped using FB years ago and I use Instagram for two of my passions - tiny houses and boobs. And, somehow, Instagram figured out that I wanted to buy a Remarkable 2 ;) But yeah, joking aside, Instagram was the one of few places I actually saw ads of things I wanted to buy. Sure, the ads tried to rip my eyes out for those products ($50 for a product I found for $5) but still...
As an aside, people complain that Twitter is a toxic place, but if you exclusively subscribe to art accounts , it's one of the most beautiful places on the internet. Asian artists are an even safer bet: they only post art. How refreshing!
You know, I do see a lot shit on Twitter but somehow my brain has given the low value, spam etc tweets the "advertisement treatment" - I tune it out, don't "see" it.
Any artists in particular you'd recommend?
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#599Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, seconded. Stopped using FB years ago and I use Instagram for two of my passions - tiny houses and boobs. And, somehow, Instagram figured out that I wanted to buy a Remarkable 2 ;) But yeah, joking aside, Instagram was the one of few places I actually saw ads of things I wanted to buy. Sure, the ads tried to rip my eyes out for those products ($50 for a product I found for $5) but still...
> And, somehow, Instagram figured out that I wanted to buy a Remarkable 2 The Remarkable website uses the Facebook tracking javascript. If you had visited the Remarkable website then it would know to advertise to you.
That's probably it, yeah. Still, surprising that only Instagram figured the RM2 angle out.
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Sounds like overkill, mate. I’ll go with your comments parent. Maybe 5 peanuts. In all seriousness, I’ll agree on cdn at 20 a month plus 3 @ 15 dollar nodes running out app and db, let’s go multimaster with a local db node on each app server, screw the c go for a and p, and yeah a single haproxy hardware thread, ha, so make that 2 single core nodes 1gb will do fine for 300k connections per second, um you mentioned st…
You think that Facebook and Google build these huge warehouse-size data centers all over the world for fun? You think they wouldn’t rather have the cash?
You do realize that their data includes half of humanities personal lives, if you count WhatsApp and tinder. It ain’t all cat pictures, I’m afraid