GravityisaHoax

I just read the sticky and those are some real stupid reasons to not blackout the sub, and instead just made a half-assed attempt to participate.

I've never visited r/games and now I'm glad I never have.

>Put those together and it's plausible that Reddit wants to go from a discussion site with cats to a cats feed site with meaningless discussion, and a bunch of ads mixed in.

That would align with the changes Reddit seemed to have made to their algorithm. They changed something last year that affected what posts were promoted to the top of sub.

In the r/movies sub, text posts were frequently getting to the top, which is fine is these were quality posts. Spoiler: they weren't. They'd be dumb questions like "DAE think X movie is underrated" where X movie is highly rated by everyone or a cult classic, or meaningless observations like "Y movie is now 30 years old!!" as if someone just discovered how time works. In the past, most top posts were links to articles, trailers, posters, etc. Discussion naturally happened in those posts. These low effort posts did spur a lot of discussion, but none of it was new or meaningful.

I think the mods are now filtering out these type of posts, because the sub is more or less back to how it used to be.

I haven't seen any politics in my feed. The content it shows me is fairly related to what I watch. I have used "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" fairly often, so that probably has helped.

There are some subs I frequent where the mods have created bots that have completed transformed the sub for the better. Examples are the several marketplace subs, where bots are heavily used.

That's my plan. Most of the subs I visit on Reddit still have large and active forum alternatives that I'll just return to.

There's only a few niche subs that will be hard to replace for me, but they're talking about moving.

Venmo requested the something similar from me a few years ago for an account with 0 activity. Except they wanted a passport or driver's license with a selfie. This was an account without any bank account or cards attached to it. I hadn't used it to pay or receive any money. But it wasn't a new account. I had for like 3 years and just never used it like I thought I would need to.

I understand needing to verify the identity of people transferring large amounts of money, but it was a ridiculous ask for someone who just wanted it to send a friend 10 bucks for lunch. I just used another app, and my identity is still frozen in Venmo to this day. The silver lining is that no one can open an account with my information to circumvent the freeze, so I'm safe in that respect on Venmo.

I feel like there's more to that situation, since he had multiple accounts compromised.

No wonder their roads are so bad.

Ah well, it seemed reasonable to me because that was one of M66B's first guesses too. His first comments about this publicly mention guessing that it's favicons, but I suppose he could have eliminated several other possibilities first.

I think almost everyone would be agreement that Google can communicate better.

How do other email apps handle this? Do they just disclose it in the privacy policy? Or do none of them have this feature?

Google may not have given the specific reason but isn't it a reasonable guess based on what they told the dev? It seems like it's what the developer thinks the culprit is too. His commit yesterday was to disable it for the Play Store version, and it included the comment of "Google doesn't allow favicons for privacy reasons".