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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by noobermin on Sunday November 27, 2022 @11:17PM (#33769774)
An aside to those curious, linking to jwz's blog from HN is not liked by him, and the website, if it detects a direct visitor HN redirects to a vulgar NSFW image. This apparently is a work around.
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by dorkwood on Sunday November 27, 2022 @11:40PM (#33769879)
Here's the NSFW image, if anyone's curious. https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by whateveracct on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:38AM (#33770435)
Accurate
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by politelemon on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:18AM (#33770620)
I resemble that remark
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by happytoexplain on Monday November 28, 2022 @11:08AM (#33775337)
Oh, I was thinking it was going to be something more shocking. I can appreciate this flavor of grumpiness.
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by happytoexplain on Sunday November 27, 2022 @11:28PM (#33769826)
I can understand not wanting the traffic, but it sounds like he has something personal against the HN userbase. Do you know what that is?
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by aliqot on Sunday November 27, 2022 @11:32PM (#33769837)
It's complicated.
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by opportune on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:07AM (#33770289)
Some people have a deep intrinsic need to be contrarian. His criticisms of HN are especially ironic given his involvement in startups and his fortune coming from a Netscape liquidity event
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by ghusto on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:36AM (#33771500)
Check the link to the "NSFW" image. If you don't want to: My interpretation is that he sees it as a place where business ruins good-will technologists.
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by bearmode on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:59AM (#33772082)
Most people on here are libertarian techbros. Hard not to hate.
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by deafpolygon on Sunday November 27, 2022 @11:28PM (#33769822)
why?
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by captainkvvnr on Monday November 28, 2022 @12:36AM (#33770155)
In light of this, his grandstanding about the open web and open standards, etc. falls a bit flat if he implements such referrer-based tactics.
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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Monday November 28, 2022 @06:01AM (#33772100)
Why do you allow the referrer to be set?

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-tha...

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Re:PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate the Internet by amadeuspagel on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:26PM (#33778312)
Ironic, given this post. Hive is bad, because it doesn't let you link to posts from other places on the internet, like ... his own blog?
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