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Bezier
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They absolutely shouldn't be able to, but companies are constantly pushing the boundaries and seem to be getting away with their bullshit bullshit depressingly often.
Guess I should give it a proper look, then.
Unfortunately YT removed the ability to report spam comments recently. lol
Surely this isn't true..? That would be so dumb.
It is actually useful?
In my experience it just looked like SEO farm that polluted my search results with irrelvant machine-generated content.
It seems to be a 4-way intersection.
Hard disagree.
How so? It already takes knowledge and effort, what would another hoop change?
The same reason new Reddit exists. The same reason they blocked third party apps from using their API; To increase engagement and serve you more ads more effectively.
If the gains outweigh the cost.
Those who use old reddit to get around it wouldn't likely get the app anyway, so why even try blocking it?
I was half joking, but honestly thank you for the explanation. I hadn't thought of that.
Congratulations!