Yes and no, it is your instance’s backend that is responsible for this behavior. Once your instance is up-to-date, you should not see these old results any more. No need to wait for all other servers 😉

Wow, that is incredibly annoying! I can’t imagine they wouldn’t get forced to take it down.

Great idea, but the money they have is barely enough to make a dent in the development scope they are aiming for.

Are you expecting a developer to test everything every time they commit? Thoroughly testing even a small application or feature subset will take up quite a bit of time. You also want devs to commit often, so it is easy to roll back an approach that didn’t pan out, or just to go back and figure out what change caused something to stop working. If you end up committing only a few times per week because everything needs to be thoroughly tested, I’m not convinced it is a good approach.

FYI, this is an attempt at humour, clearly “/s” is needed on lemmy as much as it was on reddit 😅

What would be the probability of u/spez being behind this attack, in an attempt to sabotage lemmy?

Thanks for the reminder, I still had one of those messages waiting for me…

Same! As an introvert it is not easy though.

While I agree that advertisers go much too far, the 650k labels figure used here is a bit manipulative. They make it seem like the advertisers have 650k different bits of information on everyone, but clearly they don’t.

The examples they provide of labels show that they are combinations of multiple things. For example they show a label “France + Land Rover”, which really are two different bits of information combined into one label. If they would have an exhaustive list of all countries (about 200) and the most popular car brands (let’s say about 20), that would be around 4000 labels, or 0.6% of the 650k labels. If they add a third characteristic, that number would explode.

We are exploring unknown depths of beans here!