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North Korea produces new vanity vlogs in social media propaganda comeback

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I'm just waiting until the adopt zoomer lingo for their social media accounts.

"NK cuisine be bussin and Kim Jong Un got that drip! He yeeted the cringe imperialist pigs out of here!"

made me chuckle my coffee

PRIVATE / INCOGNITO BROWSING NOT SUPPORTED

The NK Pro, NK News and KCNA Watch websites do not support private mode or incognito browsing.

Just like almost every news site.

Never happened to me. Please link some of those sites, I want to test them.

What? It's working as intended on Chrome and Chromium based browsers.

Banning incognito is only possible with browser sniffing, so it probably breaks from time to time in certain browsers.

I know it's possible to detect incognito testing for specific APIs and browser behaviour, but it's a very brittle method as every new browser version changes something here and there. Anyway I've never encountered a website doing such a thing. Perhaps I'm unknowingly blocking the gatekeeping scripts. Also why prohibit incognito browsing? Cookies?

Turning off JS lets me read a few lines. Just gotta block the right trigger. Or I guess, fake the user agent.

https://archive.is/ok44y

I get a security warning for bad cert domain when I visit that in Firefox but not in Chrome, odd, probably just a difference in default handling behavior for a particular case.

And whom exactly do they think they're fooling?

Please let's not kid ourselves. Propaganda will work on most populations. Somewhat better in places where literacy is low, but it can absolutely take hold anywhere.

There are useful idiots in every population ready to tattoo themselves with some thing either political, ideological, or even commercial.

Populations are not good at context - we take some tiny, possibly insignificant effect, like the utterance of a leader etc. and make all sorts of giant assumptions about it. Sometimes the issue is serious but we still contextualize it. We also tend to ignore major material issues unless someone is creating a fuss and making a narrative about it.

Kim needs a Tumblr.

He used to have one but it's not well maintained since 2015: http://kimjongunlookingatthings.com

If he had Twitter that would be a blast!

Sadly he'd probably get banned like Trump's account.

No fun allowed.

If nk does it it's propaganda. If any other country does it, it's pr.

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