Off-topic: Lemmy really needs better crosspost functionality.
Lemmy is a small group of people, let's not divide it further by having the exact same conversation in two (or more) places.
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I don't have anything meaningful to add, other than my sincere gratitude to you for posting this.
I haven't laughed so hard in a good while.
Sure, they could block based on your VPN provider, but they're probably also using Deep Packet Inspection .
The ELI5 verson: It's possible to just "watch" your traffic and notice that it's not the "normal" https traffic (which is the most common traffic) . This can be done by finger printing the request itself or just watching the amount of traffic. For example if you "visit" a website, but upload and download 3 megabytes of data and it takes 15 minutes to send/receive that data... well, that looks suspicious... and depending on the country, you may have some people knocking on your door.
Begins?!? Docker Inc was waist deep in enshittification the moment they started rate limiting docker hub, which was nearly 3 or 4 years ago.
This is just another step towards the deep end. Companies that could easily move away from docker hub, did so years ago. The companies that remain struggle to leave and will continue to pay.
All aboard the gold train!
Innevitably whatever public transportation you use the route will end up in the ghetteo.
This is a mindset that many people in the U.S. will need to get over before the "quality" of public transport improves: that busses, trains, subways are for "the poor".
I've been on the subways in New York and busses and trains elsewhere in the States. They're gross. Especially, compared to most of Europe (Italy, Denmark, Germany, etc). In Asia, they're also a clean. The mindset in Asia and Europe is "this is what people (not just the poor) take to get from point A to point B". There aren't school busses, the kids just take the same city bus/train/subway that all the other people take to get to work.
I've spent 45 minutes in the States on my daily commute staring at (and riding on) the bumper of the car in front of me. I've also spent 45 minutes, in Europe, peacefully riding the subway to work. I'm able to surf the web, watch a video, relax. I definitely enjoy/recommend the later experience.
Since you asked:
- The bot provides little "value" vs the noise it creates.
I don't need a bot to tell me that the BBC is a legit news source. Maybe if you flip it around and only publish a message if it's a known scammy website, this might be less spammy. However, this "threshold for scamminess" would be very subjective.
- This bot is everywhere. This is closely related to the first point ("value" vs noise). It just sprang up one day and I saw it in every single thread, I'd read.
Fortunately, most Lemmy clients allow blocking users - which I've done and I'm much happier with my Lemmy experience.
Thanks for the write-up. I think Santa will be bringing me a Firestick Max for Xmas... and I've already got a real-Debrid subscription (which I highly recommend). I look forward in trying to plug them together.
I expect to have some website compatibility issues with Firefox/librewolf, as it does have a 3% share of the global browser market - so, website development energy is focused on the chrome/safari experience. However, 8+ years ago I felt I needed to use chrome at least every other day to view certain websites - it was frustrating.
I'm hoping (and willing to try it out) to see if this has improved.
Neato, I'll check it out. I'm also trying out mull for android (as I'd like to keep my desktop/cellphone bookmarks/browser-history in sync)
I think OP is referring to the fact that bad actors, who are exploiting facets of SEO (rather then providing "meaningful" content), use to need to programically generate content (pre-AI/LLM).
For a real reader, it was obvious (at a quick glance) this was meaningless garbage. As they would often be large walls of text that didn't make sense, or just lists of random key words.
With LLM/AI, they're still walls of text and random key words, but now they grammatically/structurally correct and require no real effort to generate. Unfortunately, it means that the reader actually need to invest time in reading it. You'll also notice a growing trend in articles (especially in "compare X vs Y" type articles), the same content is recycled and rephrased to "pad" the article and give it a higher SEO ranking.