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You can just request stuff be removed from archive.org and there's not really any pushback. It wouldn't surprise anyone if Snopes (or others) wanted everything before a specific date removed.
Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet
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i'm tired of the internet becoming more fragile with feelings like many others have pointed out, but the places where "free speech" is valued can also be overrun by bots and shills like 4chan, where your average thread on /pol/ is most likely to be derailed by shills. and even those that aren't demolished by autistic propagandaists it's usually normalfags flooding that site and ruining everything
kiwi farms is genuinely one of the last places that isn't controlled by bots or normies, but even this forum isn't safe from the occasional summerfag asking for personal army for some guy that called them meanie words on DA inflation communities
kiwi farms is genuinely one of the last places that isn't controlled by bots or normies, but even this forum isn't safe from the occasional summerfag asking for personal army for some guy that called them meanie words on DA inflation communities
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going to /pol/ expecting actual discussion between normal humans is like going to a gas station and expecting fine cuisine without worms.
same with most 4chan boards these days to be honest.
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Man it is incredibly sad. Even back in 2009 /v/ had some decent discussions from time to time if you can stomach the shitposting. I swear a bunch of Redditors seen greentext stories and go there just to emulate what they saw. Now its just an ocean of garbage. You can really tell the state of 4chan just from /gif/ alone. Don't miss it, but glad there is still niche imageboard options out there still. They're very slow with the occasional autist who spergs at you for posting a certain way but at least there is real discussion.
Stasi
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I know its been talked to death all over the place but the level of spying and tracking is absolutely absurd and it just makes you feel dirty using the internet these days.
I've been watching some videos from a specific blogger on a device not linked to my google account, I'm not logged into anything on it. On my main machine my youtube feed starts recommending videos from this blogger. They are not linked in any way to other shit I'm subscribed to or what I watch on my logged in account. Fuck you google, get your disgusting tendrils out of my internet orifices.
I've been watching some videos from a specific blogger on a device not linked to my google account, I'm not logged into anything on it. On my main machine my youtube feed starts recommending videos from this blogger. They are not linked in any way to other shit I'm subscribed to or what I watch on my logged in account. Fuck you google, get your disgusting tendrils out of my internet orifices.
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Were both devices using the same internet connection...?
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I looked at "view page source" of a YT video page and wow the code is so unorganized. It's pretty much not human readable.
I kind of miss when web pages were written in simple HTML, but then again one couldn't do as much on the 'net back then...
I kind of miss when web pages were written in simple HTML, but then again one couldn't do as much on the 'net back then...
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nsopegasusyou
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Eric Schmidt: However, our report says that it's really important for us to find a way to maintain two generations of semiconductor leadership ahead of China. Now, the history here is important. In the 1980s, we created a group called SEMATECH. We had a bunch of semiconductor manufacturing in America. Eventually that all moved to East Asia, primarily Singapore, and then South Korea and now Taiwan through TSMC. The most important chips are made in Samsung and TSMC, South Korea, and Taiwan. China has had over 30 years to plan to try to catch up. It's really difficult.
Eric Schmidt: We don't want them to catch up. We want to stay ahead. We call for all sorts of techniques to try to make sure that we rebuild a domestic semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing facility within the United States. This is important, by the way, for our commercial industry as well as for national security for obvious reasons. By the way, chips, I'm not just referring to CPU chips, there's a whole new generation, I'll give you an example, of sensor chips that sense things. It's really important that those be built in America.
What are the chips that "sense things" and that Schmidt wants so much to prevent from being available to China and any other country?
Short answer: electromagnetic sensors used to spy on everybody so Google can show them "relevant ads" and profit. You will find them embedded on your CPU, on the nearest cellphone tower's transmitter and on Starlink satellites.
Slightly longer answer: since the 1980s, Silicon Valley has used semiconductor radars to collect data about what you think (your inner speech) by means of machine learning with data extract from wireless imaging of your face and body. It has proved very convenient for them, as this enables blackmail, extortion, theft, sabotage and murder like nothing else. They can do this because they design the semiconductor used on your phone, computer, TV, car and for your telecom supplier's network equipment, which makes possible to embed silicon trojans everywhere.
Don't underestimate what machine learning can do. e.g. Study shows AI can identify self-reported race from medical images that contain no indications of race detectable by human experts.
Also, don't underestimate the number of people Silicon Valley is willing to kill to maintain a monopoly, as you may be the next victim.
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I don't like it when there's what I call "sticky cookies" - when a site keeps planting a cookie even after it's closed and the cookie(s) cleared. Especially from YT.
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It's probably just compiled as a React app or something. Garbage frameworks like Babel or WebPack will just obfuscate classnames, images, id's and the actual operation of the code.
YouTube is a perfect example, because if you run it in Google Lighthouse (benchmarking software for websites), it will say that YouTube is a terribly designed website.
Not to mention this appearing every 3-4 seconds, with just constant errors being thrown by the service workers in the background. Holy fuck YouTube's page is actually broken.
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hypothesis: The IT staff of YT were hired more for identity than ability.
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a lot of these errors from what i can tell are a result of your browser, likely due to an adblocker blocking resources and communications related to youtube advertisements. testing this myself, i got a similar series of errors until i temporarily disabled my adblocker.
i'm quite certain that if youtube was shitting out errors like this as a fault of their own code, they would've at least tried to resolve or hide it from end users.
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alternative hypothesis: You can't find ability in frontend web devs. The few with actual ability are either devops who are stretched too thin with all the crap they have to handle or are victims of all the retarded web trends that it makes it impossible to make something decent.
There's definitely skill and ability in YT's IT staff. I can't remember the last time a video was slow to load (as long as my own connection was fine). Their CDN handles a retarded amount of load and handles it well.
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I use an addon for temporary containers to somewhat mitigate this. A lot of random Youtube video dives end up in the same container that gets deleted 5 minutes after I close the last of its tabs and those cookies are gone.
Yet another alternative hypothesis: website design is like handing limitless ability with no restriction to a designer. They make a terrible sketch with tons of stupid bells and whistles for a "happy user experience" that then gets sent to barely qualified frontend devs to implement. Would you put your ass on the line to explain to some UX bullshit artist that implementing whistle #35 makes the React app you're building take up 30% more CPU time?
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Archive.org has a whole forum that gives the option of being able to ask for things to be removed from their archives. Not even entirely sure if you have to verify you're the webmaster to do so. An example of such a request.
https://archive.org/post/1022869/site-removal-request archived
Sadly it is probably a necessary evil for archive.org's forum to exist as it does, for the sake of the wayback machine, but it seems like such a choice existing opens archive.org up to griefing. In any way, it allows for things to be buried, by the hosts of webpages or otherwise.
It might be a good idea to check if someone from snopes ever requested content removal, or if you can just find someone linking snopes in a removal request. Of course, I doubt these things are required to be public.
Just did a basic specific search myself, and I can't find any removal requests. Some pretty old mentions of snopes pages, though. https://archive.org/post/25701/happy-holidays archive
Interestingly, the lack of old archives of snopes still rings true for the articles linked in these old forum threads.
https://web.archive.org/web/2021122...es.com/fact-check/rudolph-red-nosed-reindeer/
Linked in that 2004 thread above. Nothing before 2021 as in your screenshot.
This link: http://snopes.com/rumors/upsuniforms.asp which was brought up by a user in the archive forum in 2006, (archive) wasn't even saved before today.
I had to personally do this.
The article is from 2003. It was also created by the site's founder. Archive
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I was looking for something for the LTT thread and noticed that google image search now appear to blur certain images. I tested two browsers with the same result.
So can someone search for: linus tech tips yvonne, click the image tab and scroll down and see if there's a blurred photo from a yarn site and two blurry meth dealers at the bottom.
So can someone search for: linus tech tips yvonne, click the image tab and scroll down and see if there's a blurred photo from a yarn site and two blurry meth dealers at the bottom.
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I don't think that's google. The sites themselves show blurry images as placeholders, while they load in the full res version. Google only seems to have cached the blurry ones.
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Huh. The yarn site works just fine, the blurry reddit links as well(they were tagged NSFW as a joke). YLE(finnish news) had blurry pictures though. Strange. My first reaction was that they were adding an extra layer on top of their safe-search stuff.