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Doesn't have to be not logged-in. Years ago I use Chrome (with myself logged into Google) to search for very specific queries, so I have to use multiple operators (double quotes, "site", "filetype") in one search to narrow the result. I was hit with CAPTCHA as soon as I browse to page 2 of the result. This happens many times, so I have to do this kind of search at different times to make sure it doesn't see me a heavy traffic at any point.

It doesn't look like it came from Researcher. According to [1], it's a quote by Mike Hearn, a software engineer.

[1] https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/what-convinced-you-containm...

At one point, many of my entertainment news in my Google feed came from WGTC, and 95% of the time, what they presented in the article simply doesn't match the given impression of its title (a clickbait, so to speak), or simply came from not-so-reliable source. I eventually have to tell Google I don't want to hear from this source again.

Same goes to Alternative Nation (a music site), but it's worse than WGTC. It uses GoDaddy firewall to block access from my country. Not that I'm willing to put effort to get in, though, as it's as terrible as WGTC.

Probably because the regulations imposed on American people are far stricter than in the jurisdiction of actual residence. The article mentioned FATCA, which is a great example.

As a side note, whenever I opened an account with financial institutions, I have to deal with FATCA paperwork that asked me to confirm that I'm not US citizen every time. It barely makes sense as I was born a Thai citizen and never renounce it, yet I have to complete the FATCA declaration. I couldn't imagine what will happen if someone declared that they are subject to FATCA (at best, probably red tapes, or at worst, being kicked out of their service).

I tend to avoid Quora mainly due to its login wall (I know how to bypass it, but to do it every time on mobile is time-consuming), only reading it if there's a "good" answer. Then again, many of the answers I found will contain (somewhat) subtle promotion to something hardly related to anything in the original question. It just doesn't get straight to the point.

Every time I use Fandom without logging in, I will be faced with similar experience. A pop-up video with ads about the content it tried to promote (sometimes related to the content of the Wiki I visited, but mostly not) will play automatically, and I have to stop it every time.

As I am a contributor to some of the Fandom Wiki, I have to log in in order to make the promoted video goes away, which it did. But logging in in order to get rid of it is not a solution to this. Video shouldn't be popped up like this, let alone played automatically. I would tolerate a static ad to some degree, but this is not what I'm willing to.

This reminds me of the ESS surgery I took last Sunday. The bill came at approximately $4,900, and approximately 60% goes to the physician. I didn't have insurance, so I have to pay them in full.

Although I enrolled in the universal healthcare scheme (which allowed me to pay up to $1 for treatment), my sinusitis is more serious such that I don't think UHS will properly cure me, causing me to pursue special clinic at public hospitals (where more experienced physicians are available).

The previous workplace of mine sets the signatures of my email to start with "Kind regards", and I continue to use it after I left that workplace. I now take a freelance job, and if the contact person isn't really nice to me, I would simply sign "Regards" (not "Kind", as my mood isn't really kind). Glad to hear that it can be viewed as a less polite form.

Not really. With the confusing interface Facebook introduced (even the Activities Log where I used to find logged actions more easily), it has become more difficult to find the list of people/pages followed. It's not surprising that they would often look for tools that can simplify the process instead of finding a needle in Facebook's own haystack.

> Since yesterday's twitter backlash, a lot of people are requesting to delete their accounts only to get a response back with a dodgy document[1] stating "that they require time to understand your demand" and "that it will take from 1 to 3 months to process".

Two months ago Foodpanda Thailand (also a Delivery Hero subsidiary) took a darker pattern by removing the delete account button in its entirety. This doesn't last long, though if two companies under the same parent company try to do this, I would consider it a parent company's corporate culture, not just the action of its subsidiary.

To elaborate, the massive influx of deletion in Thailand's case is due to Foodpanda's so-called "miscommunication" of labeling a protester (who is caught on camera setting fire against a sacred artifact) a "terrorist". Sympathizers to the protesters' cause then rush to delete the account, only to see a dark pattern mentioned above.

This mirrors what happened in Thailand as well. While the younger generations (90s or after) want to see a better and fair politics, many people involving in politics nowadays are more likely to support Chinese influence (infrastructure, pandemic response, among others). In fact, when its embassy published an op-ed bashing Thai people for diminishing the efficiency of COVID-19 vaccine it supplied to Thailand, there are some Thai people who actually gave apology on behalf of the fellow Thais, despite their series implying that face masks from Thailand have a low quality.

I would say it's the case if the information in their primary language is sufficient (and even if it's not, there may be other sites). I defaulted to enwiki as it provides more information and less attempt to control the narrative structure of the same article in my primary language (YMMV on the latter, though)

It's even more annoying (and takes more than 2 minutes) to do so in Windows 11. I got a hand on it some time ago (though reverted, not due to this behavior) and spend some time to change the default browser to what I'm using (Vivaldi)

Apparently, there's no option to set default app for common file types (Audio, Video, Browser etc...) in Windows 11. Instead, to change default apps, you have to track down all file types using that app and change it. Considering web browser can handle more than HTML, it's time consuming to change them all. Granted, it may be one-time change, but I find my default browser got reset quite often in Windows 10. If this happens in Windows 11, it will be a nightmare to fix.

Not in a sense of "signed letter", but more like a "huge feedback". Six years ago MSFT planned to reduce free storage for existing OneDrive users to 5GB (after bumping it to 15GB + 15GB of Camera Roll bonus) [1]. Like other users, I was unhappy as I have been using OneDrive with the promise of bigger storage than Google.

Sure enough, over 72k votes at OneDrive's UserVoice [2] cause MSFT to back down. They still reduce the storage to 5GB, but existing users (myself included) can opt out of it.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9890966/microsoft-onedri...

[2] https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/sugges...

When I first saw the title (I use HN Digest to send Hot Topics to my mail), I thought this was the same as the story I've read several years ago. I have attached some of them here, from 2012 [1], 2014 [2] and 2015 [3].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_c...

[2] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...

Sony also doesn't quite catch on in Thailand, and they (somewhat) exited this market for years now. When I need to get a replacement for XA1+, I have to chase around some carrier retailers known to have one, cause it's just won't be around ordinary phone retailers anymore.

Sony was quite a justified spec of its time (though the low battery capacity is my biggest complaint), but more players have emerged with a more competitive spec, and I also have to switch accordingly.

There's a few times I see the attribution next to the image itself (excluding the featured image, where there's plenty of spaces to do proper attribution).

"Order of Parental Glory" [1] is one of the examples. Strangely enough, many of the examples of inline attribution is for images from kremlin.ru, meaning there's probably some kind of agreement that mandates inline credits back in the days, but no longer anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Parental_Glory

I remember that MediaWiki installation allowed the configuration that essentially permits the use of Commons files, albeit in that case, the file will be downloaded and cached in the Wiki's own server [1].

That being said, though the image wasn't hotlinked directly, they expressed concerns of DDOS and the possible costs the Foundation has to incur from each load (they even pointed out that it's "fair and reasonable" to point donation link to them).

I would be interested to see how the licensing issue will be handled, though. The photographer licensed this photo as GFDL/CC BY-SA 3.0 [2], and hotlinking may break the term of these licenses.

1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons

2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AsterNovi-belgii-flo...

> in my experience it almost always required fighting with people with huge egos following arcane rules and procedures which they certainly took a lot of time to design and develop but which don't seem like productive use of my time

This echoed my experience before I left a Wikipedia project (one of its language variant). I have been vocal with the direction one of its most active admin is trying to head the project to, as well as the not-so-positive treatment of inexperienced users. Many of the legitimate complaints against this admin was pretty much ignored or stalled. Ultimately, I decided that it's not worth my efforts to try to push for a more friendly environment, and I have decided to leave. I still help with some offline activities and movement-related function, but chances for me to return to being the contributors again are slim.