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Is there any risk of google escalating to banning accounts for adblocking? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I remember there was a bug (or intended behavior?) of people getting their accounts banned for certain kinds of mundane chat messages in live streams and I'm a little spooked that the same will happen with the recent escalation in the adblocking arms race.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Did that actually go into effect yet? I only remember it being floated as a possibility. When I searched "x price" to find out how much they're charging, the results were a demonstration of how bad of a name "X" is:

  1. Price of US Steel (NYSE: X)
  2. Price of the X coin
  3. Coin
  4. US Steel
  5. XPRIZE, an engineering contest thing partially funded by melon-musk
  6. Tesla Model X
  7. Coin
  8. Coin
  9. XPRIZE
  10. iPhone X

Anyway, after refining my search, it looks like requiring a paid subscription to post is being piloted in New Zealand and the Philippines.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I love how twitter had one of the best brand names, I mean it's just good in general, but it's also builtup and maxed it, fully SEO'd, everyone knows it, it's short, it's history is long, it's the level 100 legendary pokemon of brand names, but then he replaces it with a level 5 magikarp.

    That's not to mention the SEO ambiguity of X (from your keyboard) or this weird other symbol 𝕏.

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