scytale

I go there for specific sports subs and my city sub, and I sometimes check the home page just to see what’s going on. There are a lot of posts that look innocent, then usually someone will comment “If <company> was smart, they would use this to market their product”, then the next reply is always “they just did” or “look again”. At least some people notice, but that’s not stopping those posts from reaching the front page and getting a ton of engagement.

Examples:

• A video of a UPS driver properly relocating packages left haphazardly (and tossed carelessly) by the Fedex driver and USPS driver who coincidentally delivered packages earlier on the same day.
• Video of the burger king CEO actually taking a huge bite of his burger. It was made to look like the video was taken randomly, and the post title didn’t have any indication that it was made to ride the wave with the trending mcdonald’s CEO. And there were tons of comments suspiciously talking about BK’s burgers being better anyway, etc.
• Feel good and made-me-smile videos that suspiciously have branding prominently displayed on an item in the video and comments that talk about the product.

Most stuff with obnoxious advertising causes me to avoid them, and that’s usually a bad sign. Compare that to Mullvad, who only do pinpoint relevant ads, and they have the receipts that show they actually do what they say.

I guess the broken clock thing applies for the Mullvad recommendation. I haven’t seen any issues with them and they have had a good track record.

Yeah I have uBO installed and it doesn’t seem to work. I just use it as a spare browser now outside of Safari and Firefox Focus.