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dallen33today at 6:41 PM3 repliesview on HN

Yeah cuz X is fucking shitty, why would I want to give them any traffic?


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xp84today at 6:53 PM

Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets?

Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for it - or even give it the possibility to monetize my traffic with ads!"

Still quite mainstream take: "... so I'll use an adblocker on it"

Immature take: "This private website that I hate and boycott is also an important part of our culture, but the posts on it are too important and valuable to ignore, so I'll use a proxy to scrape it"

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sligtoday at 6:55 PM

You're giving them attention, thus validating their existence and their numbers.

qwerpytoday at 6:50 PM

“It’s ok to do bad things to people/things I don’t like”

Feels good when you get to dish it out doesn’t it?