The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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On a smaller scale ad blockers are now using this to get around ad block walls. They have a background script that clicks on every advertisement to trick the website into thinking you are seeing and interacting with ads
It also trolls advertisers because they get zero value from their ads and it will be the same thing here where AI is navigating to every possible piece of content on the web
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Is it by any chance because they say things that you want to hear, or do you actively disagree with some of it but continue to follow? Just asking as I seem to recall you making pro Brexit/anti EU posts that suggested you weren't too big on objective facts.
Soldato
Literally the whole point of it. To listen to views different to my own
Caporegime
Truth Social dunking on Musk, you love to see it!
This is all true but then you have to balance that out with all the positives. People do have better access to information that can save or improve lives, improve education and knowledge, increase awareness of global issues.
In a country where social media is highly restricted like China or poverty prevents wide spread access then life is generally not better.
The fact that there maybe be some servers making massive requests is entirely plausible, but what makes absolutely zero dense is limiting everyone's access when it would be trivial to simply limit the few dozen servers that are doing the scraping.
yeah, making a critical change on a Saturday means it was a sev-zero emergency with action determined in a war-room by the most senior on-call Ops engineers.
If it was planned it would have happened Monday or Tuesday
is it he limiting the average persons genuine use at all
.... it all seems analogous to UK/welsh government limiting the advertising/sale of high fatsaltsugar items in the supermarket to reduce (physical) obesity,
and similarly might help digital health, so, maybe it's commendable on Musk's part.
as he said you may not be receiving the full spectrum of views - the false perception of a market square;
common language alone compartmentalizes a lot of discussion - if I want a wider perspective on what is really happening in france I read a french newspaper
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He's doing his normal create drama and get free PR.
If the rate limit and blocking people who ain't signed in were for valid reasons a more sensible limit would've been chosen, not X requests per day but per hour or something, and all stopping people who aren't signed in achieves is making people feel like they're missing out (FOMO) in the hope they'll open an account.
If the rate limit and blocking people who ain't signed in were for valid reasons a more sensible limit would've been chosen, not X requests per day but per hour or something, and all stopping people who aren't signed in achieves is making people feel like they're missing out (FOMO) in the hope they'll open an account.
Extreme data scraping ? If only Twitter had reasonably priced Api's that dont make dozens of other client requests when called like the front end does.
Of course thats on the premise that he's not bs'ing to cover some other self inflicted disaster involving unpaid bills , disabled services , sacked engineers etc.
Of course thats on the premise that he's not bs'ing to cover some other self inflicted disaster involving unpaid bills , disabled services , sacked engineers etc.
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Generating so much PR that it makes me NOT want to go to it. I haven’t looked at twitter in years, and this makes me want to look at it even less.
Soldato
I wondered how this works too, as embedding in this thread can be over the limit for the domain. It would make more sense if it's ip specific
Soldato
I’m sorry Dave, but I can’t do that.
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Soldato
What is it with rich people causing things to implode lately?
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