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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: ataradov on June 30, 2023, 08:27:03 pm ---I call BS on that one. How do people without accounts contribute to the bot activity?

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Might be content scrapers (probably new fangled AI) bogging down the servers.
HwAoRrDk:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on June 30, 2023, 08:16:49 pm ---Elon tweeted that it's a temporary measure due to excessive bot activity

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Ironic, because nobody will be able to read that tweet. :)

Edit: But of course because it's Musk, his tweets are not login-walled (perish the thought!), but still hardly anybody can read it because for many people (me included), it just returns an error attempting to access it ("something went wrong"). :-DD
coppercone2:
yeah I just avoided a mcmaster order because they wanted some registration shit


haha the funny thing is they think that if you have a corporate card you will bother registering for their website if you can do guest check out else where. they think you will do it because you are at work. That's what I am going to do jump through another fucking hoop for some bull shit parts. whats next, I bet they wanna start quoting people for a box of screws!  :-+  :-DD  ;D

I think they are really not in touch with how employees behave. Only the people still stuck on requisition forms (efficient and pleasant business practice, I swear, I just don't understand why people stopped implementing draconian micromanagement)  :-DD ) sent to purchasing are going to do buisness with stuff that needs an account. True story.

And its like mad sad too because you think with work from home tech/finance employees, managing guest orders would be easier and cheaper. But of course instead of trying to leverage new technology to broaden business they try to pinch off perceived efficiencies to get cheaper instead of grow. How typical.

Home depot too, you gotta get some disinterested mislocated or downright absent employee (their always called to do other shit) to open up a cell to buy a tool now because of all the security shit. Like I wanna drive down there and try to wrangle that person... it comes out infinitely easier to just buy online. I think I went there like twice in the last two years, and I used to go like weekly lol
langwadt:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on June 30, 2023, 12:05:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on June 30, 2023, 10:00:20 am ---
--- Quote from: voltsandjolts on June 30, 2023, 07:15:36 am ---Reddit going the same way...and some semiconductor manufacturers too, if you want a datasheet or 3D model  |O

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Reddit has been terrible in the past 2 years. Sometimes I just want to read the general opinion about something, without them tracking me. So forget about it on mobile, it will ask you to log in most of the time. They made the browsing experience terrible, where you literrally need to click every time to load new comments. And then do you want to click on a website in the mobile browser? Forces you to use their browser, no way to see the link address, no way to forward it. :-- :palm:
All these companies are doing is profiling. They are setting up your psychological profile for nefarious purposes. A study showed that after looking at 50-100 of your likes on facebook, an AI could predict your opinion better than your spouse.

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Regarding Reddit: use old.reddit.com
That interface is not really mobile friendly, but it will not nag you to use the app. If you actually do login (you can create a Reddit account on old.reddit.com *without* an Email Address, just skip that question) you can also force the old layout. Otherwise you might get nagged when opening reddit hosted images.

The new reddit also started to hide some features, like sorting in threads, behind the login. Also, anything marked NSFW, which is not just porn, requires a login. Or old.reddit.com.

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afaict a lot of subs have now been marked NSFW because the definition have been made so broad
langwadt:

--- Quote from: ataradov on June 30, 2023, 08:27:03 pm ---I call BS on that one. How do people without accounts contribute to the bot activity?

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all the bots scraping tweets not being logged in?
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