#you realize that the 'hellsite (affectionate)' marketing ploy was just that. a marketing ploy. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mountmortar · 8 months ago

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observation-wise i do think it's interesting how enraged people were about how a giant query that returned pretty much everything ever posted (and unposted. drafts and unanswered asks and whatnot) on the site was done (which. to my knowledge. STILL doesn't have an answer regarding the question of whether or not the data included in that query was already sold) and that tumblr was going to start partnering with AI companies to train their models and then a couple of posts went around like "okie dokie guys NOW after that query was done we implemented an opt-out toggle <3 and we trust in Good Faith that the companies will respect this toggle <3" and then everyone was like Oh Okay <3 Yay <3 and suddenly everyone's fine again. 10/10 example of a collective sunk cost fallacy mentality. at this point it's kind of free entertainment to watch

#obviously if you post anything online you are implicitly acknowledging the risk of it being scraped. that isn't the point #the point is that a REALLY shitty dick move was pulled and like. nobody cares about it. at all #despite the fact that if this happened a year ago to another site like half the people posting about it would've been saying shit like #'haha that's what those idiots get for staying on a site that just wants to mine them for data. companies don't care about their users.#thank god tumblr is different <3' when it's like. guys. you realize tumblr hasn't been different for at least 6 years now. right.#you realize that the 'hellsite (affectionate)' marketing ploy was just that. a marketing ploy.#i realize some people will read this and go 'get off your high horse you're literally posting this on tumblr'#and i mean. yeah. that's the point HAHA

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