Every now and then those "please ignore our various pleading dark patterns to accept this plate of tracking cookies" popups manage to surprise me a bit.
"We Care About Your Privacy" indeed. Come on, guys.
The joys of wanting to install and try out the new version of #blender in an attempt to get my head back into creative mode again, only to be reminded that some asshat's been DDOSing the main site into smithereens for five days now for whatever reason.
When #Reddit decided to undergo reputational self-immolation earlier this summer by banning third party apps, I figured it was the usual "if we boot those guys we can cram ours full of ads" song and dance.
Definitely wasn't expecting their actual plan to be "we're replacing moderation with cryptocurrency bolted into our app, which will Save Online Communities."
Months hijacking request headers to push that obnoxious app-pushing wrapper on all images and that was the goal? Just ... wow, guys.
@edclayand They had some wharrgarbl about blockchainingtheblockchain as a method of owning communities or whatnot, provided you did so via their app.
I'm trying to figure out if it's something they've been hammering on in the past, the latest salvo in their ongoing war on, well, themselves, or if that's actually what they're leaning fully into when they decommission Reddit Gold next month.