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[–] geography082@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So we are caring about privacy but that polygon site is a massive scrapper

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 28 points 2 months ago

Any particular reason for this whataboutism that makes it stand out from the average website?

[–] huginn@feddit.it 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's a massive scrapper?

Like it engages in scrappy flights? I guess that's one way to frame fighting with discord but I'd personally see them as fairly comparable weight classes.

Or did you mean scraper like vacuuming up data* off of everyone who visits?

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vacuuming up days?

Like it sucks time from your life, siphoning precious time out from your life without even realizing it? I guess that's one way to frame browsing Polygon but I'd personally view it as a pretty tame example compared to sites like YouTube or Lemmy.

Or did you mean data like the site is harvesting information off your service when you click the link?

[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Typo; vacuuming up data.

Ducking autocorrect

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

I was just poking a bit of fun, because there's a good chance it was an autocorrect typo for the original commenter too :p