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Great point. I'm getting really tired of escaping from these tracking predators. Chasing me down to serve me more corporate propaganda. Fuck 'em.

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You do not believe that tailoring someone's view of a site, when they don't want it to be changed, as a bad thing in terms of a user experience? It's pretty obvious it's a monetization strategy but they shouldn't ruin the experience in doing so.

There has to be a term for this kind of pseudo-intellectual, anti-establishment contrarian paranoia that crops up every now and then...

There has to be a term for putting empty labels on something in attempt to try to make it false.

Calling something 'pseudo-intellectual' or 'paranoia' say absolutely nothing about the statement. It says that you are not able to form clear arguments and instead resort to negative labels.

Pseudo-intellectual I mean to be a position taken for the sake of having a prepared argument, without understanding the reasons for holding the position (or it's opposite).

Paranoid I mean to be an unjustified concern for the actions of others, in this case Reddit.

I don't personally care if you don't think much of me, but I do want people to consider your view for what it actually is -- unrelated to the topic at hand.

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