Freskis
Joined 5 years ago
Joined 5 years ago
There's a "normalization" that it's acceptable for companies such as Reddit, Twitter, Facebook etc to enourage the world to post information on their website, and then block access to casual visitors once they got successful.
It's ABHORRENT FILTH and morally grotesque. They are causing human misery every day by deciding certain people are [outgroup] and do not have the same rights as logged-in users [ingroup].
Reddit, Twitter and Facebook are psychopath companies, and anyone working for them is part of the "ingroup vs outgroup" degradation of society.
Google treat the HTTP and HTTPS pages as separate for link ranking purposes, so there is a chance that a move will destroy 10 years of link ranking. Even with redirects, there is a non-zero chance of the business being destroyed.
If Google would treat HTTP and HTTP pages as the "same page" then I would move tomorrow.
And I'm only describing the technical aspect of it. The culture it encourages of people screaming divisive hate at each other, makes it possibly the worst corporation to have ever existed.
Notice that it's almost impossible to find people on HackerNews admitting they work there.
These people aren't "desperate", they are opportunists. The situation is the opposite to what you say: there is low risk of getting caught and high chance of finding something valuable.
(I understand that DDG does some value-add to the results returned by the Bing API).
The website is designed to encourage conflict and divisive hate, millions of americans screaming hate between [ingroup] and [outgroup].
Clearly the API and old reddit will be removed soon, and the will have reached the final destination of their plans. Their psychopath tendencies are clear, and the path they are following has been clear for years.