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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 152 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Even worse, Reddit itself has been getting infected with corporate AI-generated "recommendations"

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 90 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's really strange it's still at 47 dollars in the stock market. That thing is extreamly overvalued.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Market is irrational. Donald Social is trash garbage with no future, looks like it has a $5.5 billion market cap.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

$5.5B with a yearly revenue of $4 million and a loss of $58 million. Even if they had $0 in expenses, it'd still take a little under 1400 years to earn the equivalent of their market cap.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At least the older posts seem to be okay.

[–] recreationalplacebos@midwest.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You mean the ones where all the comments say [deleted]?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's like 1/10 or so of comments. Though it's fun seeing posts that have obviously been edited to advertise lemmy.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 2 points 2 years ago

Not completely though. A while ago I've had a wave of these comments on a 3 year old post of mine. They got deleted after I've reported them at least, though I don't know if that action was done by a mod of the subreddit or site-wide admin.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

And its inaccessible to a lot of people now anyway.

[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 118 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's why I use "site:reddit.com" instead of just adding "reddit"

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Advanced search techniques should be a class in 6th grade

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure google will disable that soon in the same way they disable all the other search syntax that used to make searching a simple and easy task

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[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Or better yet, try my filter... It's "-site:reddit.com"!

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Here's a tip:

site:reddit.com

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Makes me sad to think that this will soon be about as useful as "site:facebook.com" with the way Reddit is going.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah maybe giving corpo trash exclusivity over the sum total of human knowledge wasnt the best idea?

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

Or do this:

-site:reddit.com

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Do you think it will ever be possible to do that for all the Lemmy instances?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty much all content gets federated to lemmy.world so if you use site:lemmy.world that'll do it.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

If you look for something related to piracy, sadly it won't show.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

Kagi.com has a lens for the fediverse. A lens is basically a scope within which performing the search.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah. The best option we have imo is a service that indexes everything on one site so traditional search engines can find it. That requires someone to build it, and AFAIK that's hasn't happened.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That or the search engines themselves implement their own fediverse instances just for the purposes of indexing results. At a certain point if the platform becomes relevant enough I think we could see that happen.

I think they'd probably prefer instances that they have control over to reduce the avenues for a third party to manipulate the results. Otherwise they have to trust whoever runs the search instances.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It already works pretty well if you just add Lemmy to the search.

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Okay but reddit is also becoming inaccessible; how to migrate this data?

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I look forward to Google being forced to down rank any sites with “reddit” in the H1.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Google being forced to

What an odd phrase

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As useful as Mozilla/5.0; AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.3

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

Mine is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0. Joke is, this is the trimmed version (about:config xorigin and trimming settings) and some pages already have problems with it. If you strip out the OS, pages like google.com won't work anymore. Despite that you shouldn't parse the UA string...

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What browser agent is that?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Trick is I took out the actually useful parts like Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc. And the OS. All the agents these days have AppleWebKit and Mozilla just so old websites that look for it don't downgrade the experience.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yeah, make your user agent absolutely unique. Too much entropy will surely confuse the shit out server side HTTP Header tracking. 😬

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh gee, I wasn't aware there was more to it than the UA. Thanks for opening my eyes.

Edit: I checked your link, most of the parameters on the test require client side execution. That (client side tracking) is absolutely unrelated to what (server side tracking) I was talking about, and is something you can control (by not allowing JavaScript, for example). Please do not confuse the two. There is literally nothing you can do against server side tracking.

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Firefox doesn't pretend to use AppleWebKit. It's actually the only one which identifies itself correctly... mostly, at least:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

While about:support says "Window Protocol: wayland". But that's ok websites shouldn't care anyway.

It's other browsers who send things like "like Gecko" to sneak past old browser-detection code.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

firefox on iphone i would guess.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Probably Netscape

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

There's something very Darwinian, very artificial selection about this.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 20 points 2 years ago

Google also sneak "reddit" into the "People also ask" section.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 19 points 2 years ago

Stop using "reddit" and use "site:reddit.com", searchers.

[–] MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I fucking hate seo abusers. I have to use a locally hosted ai for a lot of my "googling" because modern day search results are fucking worthless now.

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site:reddit.com

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Am I the only one that wants to know more about this Japanese toaster you can fuck?

Surely I'm not alone here.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Mouse, meet cat

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