> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
thanks, captain google - the post I’m also responding to breaks a variety of site rules, weird how these types of people always jump in to post this exact thing and not take issue with the post being replied to at all. The fact this site is in denial about this problem is irrelevant to me - luckily that’s why there’s a downvoting/upvoting system. Note that I didn’t call him a shill, I am pointing out that the way the post was written looks like how a shill would post. Hope that is helpful to you.
Such allegations are unfalsifiable and have no meaningful contribution to the discussion; and is similar to alleging someone is a "Nazi" just because they have an alternative opinion.
I simply observed how these threads always go. The faithful turn up to proudly proclaim how much they don't use google, how they cripple their browsing experience so they may remain pure, to experience the internet as it was intended before the original sin (ads) corrupted it.
Of course, it's not the huge number of bots attempting to manipulate google which numerous posters on this thread have also run into (they must be shills as well!) necessitating a JS requirement.
No it's google who wants to get their claws into the last 0.000001% of true believers who're dodging their fiendish JS tracking! I'm sure they're salivating at the prospect of the revenue bump that group militant anti-advertisers is going to offer...
We live on an internet where "not conforming" to what an ordinary user looks like makes you look like a bot. Google certainly didn't invent that and definitely doesn't want bots trying to manipulate its services, but by all means continue to "google bad!" while avoiding any and all evidence to the contrary.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
thanks, captain google - the post I’m also responding to breaks a variety of site rules, weird how these types of people always jump in to post this exact thing and not take issue with the post being replied to at all. The fact this site is in denial about this problem is irrelevant to me - luckily that’s why there’s a downvoting/upvoting system. Note that I didn’t call him a shill, I am pointing out that the way the post was written looks like how a shill would post. Hope that is helpful to you.
Such allegations are unfalsifiable and have no meaningful contribution to the discussion; and is similar to alleging someone is a "Nazi" just because they have an alternative opinion.
Shilling for what?
I simply observed how these threads always go. The faithful turn up to proudly proclaim how much they don't use google, how they cripple their browsing experience so they may remain pure, to experience the internet as it was intended before the original sin (ads) corrupted it.
“conform, and you will have no further problems from us” makes a lot more sense to me why google called their control plane “borg”
Of course, it's not the huge number of bots attempting to manipulate google which numerous posters on this thread have also run into (they must be shills as well!) necessitating a JS requirement.
No it's google who wants to get their claws into the last 0.000001% of true believers who're dodging their fiendish JS tracking! I'm sure they're salivating at the prospect of the revenue bump that group militant anti-advertisers is going to offer...
We live on an internet where "not conforming" to what an ordinary user looks like makes you look like a bot. Google certainly didn't invent that and definitely doesn't want bots trying to manipulate its services, but by all means continue to "google bad!" while avoiding any and all evidence to the contrary.