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A comment on Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex). Parent comment

Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by lurk2 on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:29AM (#44215304)
If someone talked to me this way in the real world it would be the last time I would ever interact with them. It’s a Redditism used to express incredulity that the parent commenter could be so stupid as to have posted what they posted. It adds nothing to the conversation and doesn’t belong here.
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Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by roenxi on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:21AM (#44215773)
You're reading a lot into two words there. And someone probably has said "um, what?" to you in the real world; but you wouldn't notice because it is a common pattern of speech.

The internet will be a remarkably combative place if that is the standard you set for when someone calls you stupid - it'd be a lot better to only read that into a statement if it actually gets explicitly said.

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