XCancel also down, at least for time being

Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by AlexandrB on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:35PM (#49442702)

> The customer is NOT 'always right', but you can meet them halfway

Reddit users are not customers. The advertisers and AI labs are the customers because they're the ones paying. The users are the cattle in the pen being sold to the advertisers and the monkeys at the typewriters whose output gets sold as AI training data.

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by alex1138 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:43PM (#49442769)

I understand this, but the distinction is academic

The people using their product. The people who, if the product were shit from day 1 - as Reddit wasn't - would have never signed up for it. Who have been effectively and literally lied to

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by inigyou on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:07AM (#49444128)

It's not day 1, so it's irrelevant what would've happened on day 1.

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by alex1138 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:25AM (#49444153)

What is your point. The product has been ruined and I'm saying that by 'customers' I just meant users

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by Wolfbeta on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:34AM (#49444414)

“Users” is a misnomer that sheepishly cloaks the relationship with a little feint of dignity. You are not the customer merely because you use the thing. Where the service is free, your attention, metadata, and by extension, susceptibility to influence are the value being sold; the advertisers are the customers.

As the saying goes: “If it’s free, you’re the product.”

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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by inigyou on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:53AM (#49448240)

My point is exactly what I wrote.

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