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History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book! (thebaffler.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either

Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (10 children)

archive link since the baffler was so fond of telling me I had only 1 free article left, meaning refreshing the tab would most likely lock me out of reading the page

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (9 children)

that really is a fucking annoying banner, yeah. also, lifehack: open these fuckers in temp containers or priv sessions of $browserflavour. counter cookies can't do shit when they always die.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Using Firefox Focus as default mobile browser also handy for this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

(sorry, this rant isn't directed at you, but)

for FUCKS SAKE, mozilla

Firefox Focus is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser by Mozilla, based on Firefox. It is available for Android[4][5] and iOS smartphones and tablets.[6][7] Its predecessor, Focus by Firefox,

jesus christ can these people have a worse fucking product development team and/or strategy?

this company squanders so fucking much potential and goodwill, holy shit

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