FFS! Please name and shame what site that is so we can avoid it!
You can't imagine how much this annoyed me...
Submitted 1 year ago by FireWire400@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was experts-exchange.com
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 year ago
You can really see why they put the hyphen in. expert sexchange would be a very different website.
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah, yeah, that one site known to be one of the reasons Stackoverflow was created
Z4rK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For your consolation, many “answers” there are poor and just copy pasted from some open website anyway.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No shock there. They have been that way since 2007. It is why the SpiceWorks community took so much.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used to block search results from that site for this very reason. I don’t seem to ever get anything from them anymore though.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks. I’ll make sure to stay away from there.
DrQuint@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It should be illegal to gate content made by users with a registration.
Not the case with Medium, they have, uh, “volunteer” writers. But point stands.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just avoid Medium ever since they want me to log in
lunicoDee@feddit.it 1 year ago
CaptainAlcohol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Writers in medium can also choose to make their content premium only. However it’s not always worth the subscription, and so many of them keep posting abvious feel-good type of article or boosting their social media pages.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
remembers experts exchange in search results and shudders
Hugh_Jeggs@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Oh yeah, Expert Sex Change! Dunno why it died …
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They were so good at sex changes, they finished up.
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably rubbish scraped from other legitimate sites. These websites are just the worst
csolisr@communities.azkware.net 1 year ago
“Mildly” infuriating is an understatement, that is downright predatory behavior. Shelling out money you may or may not have in order to find a potential answer to an urgent problem you currently have is high in the list of scumbag moves. In related topics, why does the same thing happen often in regards to mental health support online?
kylian0087@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Redhat does this as well a loaf. And even when logged in. A ton of awnsers you need a active subscription for.
Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I was trying to get an answer to my math homework then got banned from the website for solving their captcha too fast
CaptainAlcohol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unless it’s a theoretical question or a something about definitions, wolfram alpha still has a step by step solutor. I used that a lot
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
The Redhat site really makes me angry sometimes. This is in the ‘going to write me a mini-van’ territory (that is a Dilbert quote, not sure if that works anymore). Write annoying things into your product and put the answers behind paywalls.
amio@kbin.social 1 year ago
Usually it's shit advice anyway, so it's not like you're actually missing out. Of course they want you to think so, wanting your money, but back in the day when this was "expertsexchange" (snrk) evading the paywall was... easy, but still not worth it. That is how shit it was.
Just find better sources: Google has recently been even more blatant about pushing "good for us"-results above "actually good" results, so trying another engine might help, too.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I stopped saying “google it” and started saying “search the internet” when I switch to Qwant.
lunicoDee@feddit.it 1 year ago
Qwant is just a bing fronte with a bit better privacy, bit they still share some infos:
Microsoft provides some of the search results you see on our pages, and provides ads to the keywords in your search inquiry. This means that we need to send Microsoft some information related to your search that allows our partner to return results and ads relevant to that search, and to prevent fraudulent clicks or other activities that are not permitted by our Terms of Use.
In order to detect fraud, Qwant uses a specialized service offered by Microsoft, which does not have access to the keywords of your search. Only your IP address and the browser (your “User Agent”) are communicated to this specialized service to calculate a fraud probability score. Keywords are sent separately to another service that does not know your IP address.
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