this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[โ€“] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hilarious how their logic completely breaks down when doing that, and they don't even care if you know.

They want you to download the app so they can collect your data and push ads that can't be blocked with browser extensions.

[โ€“] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

And whenever they want to drop a site-wide ban for any reason, it's easier to punish the whole device instead of fixing issues or pretending that most of the ad viewership doesn't consist of bots.