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Null said:
Some transparency: I block a ton of disposable email providers because I get a ton of 'help me' emails from people who used them and now can't recover their account. It sucks because I can't really give them their account back without risking giving it to someone who isn't actually them. I can't verify that.

I also block certain domains (notably GMX and "mail") because they categorically refuse our inbound emails, while Gmail just likes to put it in spam.

I also block all academic emails (.edu and .ac.uk now), as well as anything with .gov. This is an existing policy I started enforcing aggressively at the beginning of 2019 by forcing all users with .edu or .gov emails to pick new ones, and I did this before the hack, so never say I don't look out for people.
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I signed up using proton mail, the register confirmation email went straight to the junk folder even tho you have them as affiliates :thinking:
 
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3119967d0c said:
If you install F-Droid and add the appropriate repository (ticking a box in the options) you can easily install Tor Browser Bundle on your Android phone so that you can shitpost while you shit.
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Thank you for that information. It seems like more trouble than it's worth, though. I'll just do what I've always done and hold my shit in until I get home, and just shit all over things that should be shitted on.

Haramburger said:
A&H is the news/current events part of /pol/. It's healthier than actual /pol/, but consumer beware.

If normal media wasn't such shit, we wouldn't need news/current events curated in such a way but here we are.
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Joking aside, I don't get why A&H is so hated. The "normal media" being shit is why people like me are here. I remember when "normal media" had comment sections, and of course you'd have a bunch of trolls, but a lot would be talking about the actual article, and a lot would point out how the article was wrong. Then they get rid of comment sections, Then, Gab comes out with Dissenter, and the media freaks out, how dare you comment on articles that we don't want you to comment on?
 
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Drunk and Pour said:
Thank you for that information. It seems like more trouble than it's worth, though. I'll just do what I've always done and hold my shit in until I get home, and just shit all over things that should be shitted on.


Joking aside, I don't get why A&H is so hated. The "normal media" being shit is why people like me are here. I remember when "normal media" had comment sections, and of course you'd have a bunch of trolls, but a lot would be talking about the actual article, and a lot would point out how the article was wrong. Then they get rid of comment sections, Then, Gab comes out with Dissenter, and the media freaks out, how dare you comment on articles that we don't want you to comment on?
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Agreed. A&H is less of an echo chamber than the mainstream outlets. Yeah, a lot of shitposting goes on, but beyond that, you can find great discussions from people of varying opinions and political stripes instead of the typical shit-flinging THINK DIFFERENT FROM ME? BAD! posts that dominate article comment sections.
 
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Joking aside, I don't get why A&H is so hated.
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First off, most people (including some of us) feel that A&H is bootleg /pol/, where most logical discussions are overshadowed by shitposting and right-wing bias. There are also concerns that people like Corbin join only to promote their fringe right-wing beliefs there and bleed off to other forums.
 
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First off, most people (including some of us) feel that A&H is bootleg /pol/, where most logical discussions are overshadowed by shitposting and right-wing bias. There are also concerns that people like Corbin join only to promote their fringe right-wing beliefs there and bleed off to other forums.
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You do recognize Corbin is just a standard conservative Trump voting dummy, like many of your compatriots, right?
 
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Pickelhaube said:
First off, most people (including some of us) feel that A&H is bootleg /pol/, where most logical discussions are overshadowed by shitposting and right-wing bias. There are also concerns that people like Corbin join only to promote their fringe right-wing beliefs there and bleed off to other forums.
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I just ignore shitposting. I think the "right wing bias" perception is a little skewed. In America at least, I don't think it's a left vs. right issue, I think it's a Leftist vs. Trump issue. Moderate liberal voices are drowned out by crazies like AOC, and conservatives can just sit back and watch Trump run roughshod over the Democrats doing the legwork for them. When the Leftists get all the attention, people that point out their crazy just seem right wing because of that false dichotomy. It's like the Tim Pool affect, the "milquetoast fencesitting liberal" lolcow where the majority of his videos make him look like a Trump supporter. Plus, a reason why A&H might attract people who lean more right is because the media overwhelming lean left, while pretending to be neutral, and if you speak against that left leaning view point, you're labeled a Nazi.

Also, I don't get the concern that Corbin is promoting fringe right-wing beliefs. For one, nothing has struck me that he's fringe right wing. Two, promoting is a weird way to put it. It makes it sound like he's trying to sell you something, like a time share, or join a club, like Scientology. I see that used to dismiss Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson like they're trying to recruit young people to right wing ideology, and therefore they are acting in malevolence, instead of just having a different opinion and a counter argument to mainstream narrative. Three, even if he was acting in bad faith and trying to get people to become Nazis, I don't know why that would be a concern here. I think the type of people that would come here have a healthy dose of cynicism to disregard something like that.
 
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Just display a code word that a person has to type on the forum page that sets a cookie which allows read only access and visibility of any Search Engine blocked boards. Basic 101 authentication.

Any suggestions on what a good code word would be?
 
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