Crime is down because there’s less cops to commit it lmao.

Yep. They’ve gotten smarter. Some of the plugins and tools websites use to create a paywall will actually only render part of the article to the browser before the user signs up. They used to simply mask it and you could remove the paywall via editing some CSS in the browser’s dev tools to see all of the text, but that’s not the case anymore.

Source: web dev for ~20 years.

The IKEAfication of Reddit is complete and I don’t miss it at all. I was a redditor for 18 years and deleted all of my accounts.

I wish hacker groups would set their sights on these robocaller companies. They used to call my mom all the goddamn time when she was well into her senior years and didn’t understand that these things were scams. We found out she somehow had NINE car warranties because they just kept calling and banking on her senility.

It was all fun and games for them until I caught one of their calls one day, yelled at the dude profusely, and made them cancel every single one.

The unfortunate fact is that these fines will probably hang around doing nothing before they can actually collect, and by then, the company will have already evolved into something else.