← Back to context Comment by sudoshred 11 hours ago "internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl". 5 comments sudoshred Reply dredmorbius 11 hours ago "Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015:"A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015)<https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox> functionmouse 9 hours ago Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work. mikestew 8 hours ago Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box. 1 reply → dredmorbius 7 hours ago That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.
dredmorbius 11 hours ago "Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015:"A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015)<https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox> functionmouse 9 hours ago Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work. mikestew 8 hours ago Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box. 1 reply → dredmorbius 7 hours ago That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.
functionmouse 9 hours ago Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work. mikestew 8 hours ago Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box. 1 reply → dredmorbius 7 hours ago That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.
mikestew 8 hours ago Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box. 1 reply →
"Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015:
"A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015)
<https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>
Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.
Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box.
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That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.