Yeah, I don't need a bot / feed for any specific service; give me an open standard like RSS any day.
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It is interesting, but it'd also be cool to see Blizzard introducing their fanbase to one of the popular indie systems like Cypher, Cortex, etc.
Most of them are just dumb. Like a guy finds out his mom just died in a bear attack, so he and his coworker have passionate sex for the first time.
I sold my account and blocked Reddit at the DNS level. I set up a bunch of feeds in Inoreader to stay on top of topics I care about like local news, gaming, tech, etc.
The only downside has been while playing BG3 and Googling things, Reddit results usually come up first and look the most spot on. Other links are either AI generated garbage or articles that are ten paragraphs when two sentences could have been done.
If you use Chrome, I'm sure they already do. Between Google History, using their DNS-over-HTTPs, etc
This gives them the ability to more readily track and manipulate the content of the websites you visit without it being done by software on your machine.
Examples:
- Adblocking becomes more difficult if Google rewrites the URLs for all their ads so they look like they're loading from the site you visited instead of their CDN.
- Google can now scrape and index sites that require authentication since the content flows through their servers to you.
Additionally, any tomfoolery will happen in the cloud, so you won't be able to see it happening by going through the chromium source, looking in the network tab, in Wireshark, in your router logs, etc.
Dollars to donuts, they're going to put a drop of pasteurized pig blood in the paint and then dye the coolant red.
Yeah. I got a free NFT avatar on Reddit and some crypto bro couldn't shut up about how I "owned". Like no, chuckle head, if Reddit is the only site that supports it and they decide to stop supporting it, I own nothing.
We've already seen stories of people with medical brain implants having them repossessed because the company killed the project. Why anyone would trust a for-profit corporation with this type of thing is beyond me.
The person I responded to didn't say AI was useful. They said that companies are doing financial analysis before investing. That simply isn't true across the board.
I don't think Google would argue with you. If you don't want to agree to their terms, don't use the service.
Just pay for the service. Then you can run all the blockers you want.