While this is true, it’s funny to watch them wrestle with the exact same problems right now. Literally on the front page of new Digg right now is converstions about fragmenting the user-base with blocks/bans, and how to establish friend groups.

Just direct me to the nearest Lego Star restaurant please.

TD Bank (the 10th largest bank in the US) was fined 3BN USD for their role in an international money laundering scheme in Oct of this year.

They gotta make that money back somehow.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/td-bank-penalties-1.7348819

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-kldqXZlwk

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Dark patterns will eventually force advertisements into anything that reliably catches your attention.

I stopped paying attention to notification icons ages ago, and I haven’t missed any important notifications.

Billionaires who own the means of production trying to own the means of communication as well.

When they can’t, they’ll own the government, and outlaw it.

It’s like poetry.

You own what is on your machine, that you save locally.

Some companies believe they control the internet, but they do not. They control what is on the computers they own, that they save locally. Sometimes that is information that users have shared. That is their choice.

Classic actions of a horrible company doing horrible things.

“It’s for the safety of the children”

Steam, Spotify, Discord. Whoops, all Chromium.

There’s still the step where Youtube has Spotify level ads. Whatever the visual equivalent of bait-and-switch-fav-song/LISTENTOMYPODCAST/oh-god-are-those-sirens-behind-me is.

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I would challenge you to find a modern automobile manufacturer who doesn’t make their logo huge and illuminated. Also, you can no longer remove them, as they’re often now build into the body-work or grille .

CTRL+P

Dear god. My inner 90’s kid wants this as a browser.

Selective quoting is basically lying.

The first, dubbed IS-29e, failed due to a propulsion system fuel leak. Intelsat declared the satellite a total loss in April 2019, later attributing it to either a micrometeoroid strike or solar weather activity.

With the context of the quote, I"m curious what the pattern you’ve identified is.

I used to arrive promptly at 7am, and clock out at 3:30pm.

The bus to the office was always empty.

The bus home was always packed.

Now I work from home

You just won the thread.

I’m sad they’re not videos, but what a treasure trove.

Greetings from suburban Calgary, where we are currently both sprawling, and under a stage 4 water advisory for the month as our water feed main ruptured in June.

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I split an RCA cable so my brother and I could play on 2 old Commodore 64 monitors, each half-covered with construction paper.

As a habitual lurker, this is amazing. I can keep abreast if my local town subreddit without loading their horrendous mobile site. Bravo.