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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • See, that’s the thing. They don’t fucking care.

    If you’re going to use Reddit because it’s one of the three websites available to you, then you’re going to fucking use Reddit and no matter what they do to it, you will stay there and continue to use Reddit.

    They could come into your house, fuck your wife, punch you in the balls, shit in your mouth, and you’d go to Reddit to complain about it.

    The more you complain about things on Reddit about Reddit, the more you use Reddit, the more ads they serve, the more money they make.

    It’s the same reason why YouTube now no longer has a front page for you to browse unless you sign in or enable some sort of history tracker in your system. They want their fucking money and they’re going to get it and they do not care how much it annoys you.

    When people post on YouTube about how terrible YouTube has gotten and get a lot of interaction with people who miss the good old days of YouTube, YouTube gets to serve a lot of ads and make a lot of money off of that. And it’s the same thing with Reddit, it’s the same thing with every other fucking corpo site.









  • Yeah, eBay as a seller is just terrible. They have totally capitulated towards the large volume Chinese crapola sellers and require that you pay them for permission to list on their site or else they’ll bury your listing.

    It makes it very difficult to buy from another human being instead of some company that’s using eBay as a storefront.

    And because they are using AI to, okay, not LLM AI, but machine learning AI, to tell the sellers what the prices of their products should be listed at, they are inflating the cost of every single item you can find on eBay.

    They are doing this on the one hand so the sellers get more money, but on the other hand so that they get more money for their listing fees and percentage of the final sales price.

    They’re basically realpage, but for person-to-person sales.