• refalo@programming.dev
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    14 days ago

    I wish they didn’t switch to requiring a login to search code… seems like a big privacy issue cause you just know they’re saving all those searches and associating it with your account.

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      14 days ago

      That’s a fair point. I’ve always assumed it was a form of rate-limiting, but you’re right, that’ll be part of their analytics at least

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      13 days ago

      This is Microsoft enshittifying the platform they acquired to squeeze more revenue. But this is totally fine, because as user hostile and evil as the Microsoft corporation measurably is, they made a cute jpg few years ago about loving opensource or something (yeah, I know, those are different things, but I’m calling out their PR bullshit and the usual bootlickers)