RoyGBivCap
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
FTC, if they weren't captured.
Comment · 3 years ago
Full disclosure, I'm an author who has self published a few things on Amazon and setup author stuff on amazon and goodreads.
>as demonstrated by the fact that it hasn't done anything.
There are links between the two. You can buy my books on amazon (the dropdown supports other vendors) from their Goodreads pages.
But to your point about anticompetitive, I completely agree.
Why are corporations even allowed to just buy other corporations, at all?
A shitty bank bought my bank and promptly made everything about it shittier. Why is this even allowed at all? Companies buying other companies is about the most fundamentally anti-competitive thing there is.
Comment · 3 years ago
I can't speak for him, just relaying the information.
But I'm happy to speculate: Organizations violated the twitter TOS by scraping, and he's going to sue the organizations for it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've had zero issues all day. Didn't even notice there was a problem, but I'm logged in.
Comment · 3 years ago
"Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.
What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674898695534309378
"1. Scraping is already disallowed by T&C.
2. The scraping orgs dgaf & mask their IPs through proxy servers or through orgs that appear legit. For example, a recent massive scraping operation originating from Oracle IP addresses was just using their servers as a laundromat.
3. We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data & look forward seeing them in court, which is (optimistically) 2 to 3 years from now."
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah, in advertising there's supply side and demand side. So even more parties can get screwed!
Comment · 3 years ago
Didn't you hear? It's now EAT VERIFICATION SANDWICH: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/get-diablo-4-early-beta-ac...
They're doing another promotion for cosmetics too. And it's not even per sandwich, it's per purchase. So to get them all, you have to have 4 separate transactions.
Comment · 3 years ago
Using the Brave browser on iPadOS at least, YouTube will just refuse to served HD content after one video. Enjoy your 4K video downscaled to 360p.
Publishing what was said is more "just the facts, please" than editorializing the response, as shitty PR-speak as it is.