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Yeah, I’ve got a bunch of the annoyances filters active and don’t know if I could browse most websites without them at this point.

Is the last one still useful if you enable the cookies filter under annoyances in uBlock?

PIA is about twice that if you pay for 3 years at a time. It’s more, but you continue to keep everything you torrent, which is a bonus over Hulu.

Spot on. Even when they’ve been caught doing things most people thought was shady (e.g., last year’s /r/place manipulation), they tend to not outright deny it, but rather admit it and offer a half-assed explanation and end the conversation at that.

They wouldn’t do something that flagrantly disregards EU/CA privacy laws. If they did it, they’d have have a justification they thought would hold up in court. If they had a justification that held up in court, they’d happily plop it in a comment that’s pinned with a few dozen rewards and ignore any responses after that.

That’s such a strange reaction, since fake stories like yours are the only reason that sub has any content worth reading.

I’m not sure if it’s the same boner…but I just clicked a 27-day old picture of one. They’re doing something over there, but it’s definitely not deleting all the porn.

Strange, I read for weeks how easily replaced they’d be by the thousands of willing, competent volunteers.

Desktop site enabled -> old.reddit

I don’t trust a man that doesn’t have something strange going on about him, 'cause it means he’s hiding it from you. If a man’s wearing his pants on his head or if he says his words backwards from time to time, you know it’s all laid out there for you. But if he’s friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not he’s done something even his own ma couldn’t forgive.

-No-bark Noonan, FNV

Yes, the article is about a specific instance of it happening.

I think this might be a case where the generic “scams generally work best if done low effort” doesn’t apply, since to be successful, this sort of scam requires some specifics. The not-kidnapped daughter was away training for a ski race. Blasting “we kidnapped your daughter” to people whose daughter is sitting on the couch next to them or people without daughters doesn’t work at all.

The article mentions people lose an average of $11k in these scams, which means they’re probably working best when targeting people with some savings.

Why keep the 3 staff? They’re not going to be working diligently to do all the human tasks while freshly aware of how little they’re valued at this point. They’re going to look for a better place to work.

I was very aware that the quality of reddit was lower than when I joined in like 2010

It was an ongoing meme that “reddit was better a few years ago and kinda sucks now” but I really think it was accurately the case. Everyone remembers it being at its best when they first signed up because it had been on a slow, consistent downward slide from around 2010 on.

The last couple of years were so bad that I was already going to other sites for actual news and whatnot because anything outside of small, niche subs were overrun with bots (or trolls, since they were functionally the same).

The version I heard was “everything in moderation, including moderation.”

But the Butthole Surfers said, “It’s better to regret something you did than something you didn’t do”

The “plus” in the statement is putting in some work.

Flashback to a decade ago when people were complaining at reddit posts for leaving the 9gag watermark.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

Yeah, much of my comments/posts were technical support stuff for specific software vendor subreddits. I’ve created accounts on three different official forums hosted by these vendors this week. They’re not nearly as widely used as reddit now, but hopefully as the useful content moves, so will the people that need it.

Frankly, if ChatGPT isn’t increasing your performance significantly, you’re already falling behind the curve unless you’re doing manual labor.

Maybe not in the short term. Lots of the users who don’t give a shit about the protests are just getting aggravated by that stuff, based on the comments. Casual users getting pissed off are more likely to seek out somewhere else for their non-vacuum entertainment.