Comment by MoonWalk

15 days ago

COUGHredditCOUGH

I think Reddit falls under this category.

> If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.

  • Yep, toxic garbage staffed largely by same. Unfortunately, it has amassed quite a bit of potentially useful information.

  • Reddit doesn't even require an email address to make an account. You can just leave the email field blank.

    • But it does require a valid phone number which is worse.

      (I might be misremembering but they definitely require a valid something now, as I found out a while back creating a new batch of accounts to rotate)

  • I know I have created accounts on Reddit with disposable email services before.

    • I have been "permanently" banned for embarrassing some abusive moderators; now it has become a vendetta. I'm not sure how many user-identifying methods they attempt, but it overcomes VPN usage. I obfuscate my Web traffic now and it seems to have foiled these losers.

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IDK I’ve appreciated Reddit killing off good features like old version, putting a time-lock banner on mobile while logged out, trying to block VPNs when logged out, etc.

I want that company devalued and bought by Verizon or AOL to die a Yahoo death.

What is insane to me is how few people realize their stock has a higher P/E than nVidia… and it isn’t because of some bullshit minor AI data deals. It’s a youth-forward narrative machine, and everyone knows it.

  • > I want that company devalued and bought by Verizon or AOL to die a Yahoo death.

    If the future's your oyster for what happens to Reddit, why stop there? If it's bought by somebody, that implies that Spez gets an amount of money that is greater than $0.00. Ideally, we avoid such a grim and unjust outcome. We want it to be made effectively worthless so he goes broke.