Also, other sites on the Net can collate links posted to reddit and the users and times that they were posted with users accessing pages on their own site. For example, if you’ve posted a sufficient number of youtube links, youtube can possibly link your reddit account and youtube account, say, as belonging to the same person. Just about any popular site can link your reddit account with your IP address. And your facebook account with your IP address. Etc. And thereby link reddit accounts with facebook accounts in cases with long-lived IP addresses. If X is a scrapable site on which users with fixed pseudonyms can submit links and Y is a site popular enough and has enough content, then Y can collate user accounts on X with IP addresses. This is not to say anyone is doing this. There are not many sites that meet the criteria to be a Y. I would say it includes mainstream news sites. The authorities could compromise some of the Ys or create their own through astroturf and thereby link users on the Xs with IP addresses and then with location.

These days, this might be a bit harder because reddit closed up when the AI companies started scraping. I don’t know the situation with Facebook with regard to scraping. If it’s scrapable, they’ve got your name linked to your reddit account.

What I’ve said about reddit equally applies to lemmy, even more so because lemmy is open by principle.

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You can’t find anything on youtube these days. Uploads from ordinary people don’t appear in search results. They’re crowded out by the mainstream. It was called youtube for a reason. It isn’t that anymore.

NIHS

They’re probably “on it”, as the expression goes.

This whole comment section sounds like a game of Monopoly and it’s hilarious. “I’ll trade you Boardwalk for States Avenue.”

The Stranger Things universe has time travel confirmed.

lawl

The VPN software he had to use to talk to Mossad was only available for Windows.

I’ll have an answer for you just after I finish re-watching Home Alone.

See also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZoHb2ZdlVw

I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

The web also got bad before AI. The last time you could do a web search and find pages written by enthusiastic experts and hobbyists just sharing what they have to say on the topic of your query was, like, 2005. Then, it flipped. The advent of web ads meant people could easily make money from publishing websites. Sounds great. Except it brought in people whose main goal was making money, not sharing what they love. So then the results of your queries are links to pages covering the topic in the most superficial way and the author is a total nobody if you even know who the author is. There are businesses who figure out what users are searching for and then vomit out websites targeting those popular queries.

The same happened to YouTube. Like 99% of YouTube at this point has to be video essay channels with clickbait videos on superficial topics way longer than they need to be and released on a very frequent schedule. Early YouTube was one hit wonders. Ain’t no incentive to publish regularly without ad revenue.

The good was being drown out by the bad before AI. AI is only accelerating it.

The participants in this are so selfishly rotten. I can’t imagine I’d be able to sleep at night.

That’s true. I’ve watched Fight Club.

It would also seem that the article’s existence violates Wikipedia’s “no conflicts of interest” policy and the entire list of sources violates the “no self-published sources” rule. I propose the article be deleted. Thoughts?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

Base successor(successor(successor(successor(zero))))

I believe this one has the audio and video desync in the middle. Use the one in @slothrop@lemmy.ca’s comment.