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negative parallelisms everywhere in an advertorial for digital downloads: truly the era of LLM advertising

if this had had the period source material in it, it'd've been fun to see, though. pity.

Yeah. It took me a few paragraphs until I checked out, but spending flair points on unimportant stuff is still obvious. If everything is highlighted, nothing is.

There is also this weird incoherence - a long series of statements that don't seem to build to anything. It's like a story without intention or dramatic arc. That is what makes me check out - I rarely lose interest like that except when reading LLM slop.

File under: false metal

Here's the list of domains this page is trying to pull content from, all for displaying a lousy article:

   truegrittexturesupply.com
   www.truegrittexturesupply.com
   affiliatly.com
   amplifiedcdn.com
   blocky-app.com
   cart-bot.net
   chimpstatic.com
   config-security.com
   d3hw6dc1ow8pp2.cloudfront.net
   dov7r31oq5dkj.cloudfront.net
   googletagmanager.com
   ipapi.co
   jquery.com
   jsdelivr.net
   klaviyo.com
   nice-team.net
   omegacommerce.com
   privy.com
   redditstatic.com
   s3.amazonaws.com
   shop.app
   shopify.com
   shopifysvc.com
   typekit.net
   upsell-apps.com
   useamp.com
   whale.camera

With pages like these we don't need network congestion. Seriously, whoever makes crud like this... get lost. That page was maybe worth a CDN for the images and a server for the text, that's it, The end, Fini, Slut, Einde, Schluss, Fin. All that other cruft is just ballast and not even needed to display the content, for that the base domain + shopify for the images is sufficient - try it yourself.

Of course I block everything apart from the base domain by default and only allow what is needed to display the page and images. It is a sad state of affairs that is had to come to this but there we are, everything is blocked. Happy now? You won't affiliatly.com or upsell-apps.com me, not ever. Nobody here on this network either since all that thrash goes straight to the black hole.

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