6d ago

Bluesky already doing enshittification

Toot

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I use an app called URLcheck that I've installed via F-Droid. Although it doesn't appear to give me the ability to skip the bluesky redirect action but at least I know it's there I guess.
- The best part is that if you inspect elements, it still shows as the original link. They only generate the go link after you clicked.
  
  That is so... gross!!! Ugh. Yuck!
  
  Gross, or brilliant?
  
  Depends on where you fall on the sociopathy spectrum.
  
  The former lol. I'm a software dev and I'm ashamed at how we keep making the internet worse by just doing whatever the money tells us to do. It's even worse when we "innovate" for them in this way.
  
  I've come to the conclusion most software devs are as soulless as all business majors.
  
  I've tried talking to devs online about how we need at minimum collective bargaining, but we view ourselves as some kind of petit bourgeois, immune to the normal ravages of capital... sigh.
  We're now seeing how much that is worth now that interest rates are shit and there's a glut of surplus labour to compete over the limited job pool.
  Although many of the devs I speak to are like me: just trying to get by without selling out to the really giant corporations.
  
  That's how Google always worked, btw. But there is one obvious benefit to showing the original URL before you click it, you can hover it to see where the link actually leads before they hijack the click.
  
  Not always, but for quite a while now
  
  that’s also for accessibility, etc so i wouldn’t pin it all on being malicious
- You can use pattern checker to automatically replace the URL with the original one.
  json
  
  "bsky": { "regex": "https?:\/\/go.bsky.app\/redirect\\?u=(https?.*?)", "replacement": "$1", "decode": "true", "enabled": "true", "automatic": "true" }
  (it's possible they will add more parameters in future, in which case you may want to restrict the selection to not be essentially anything after u=)
- URL Checker is an awesome that many more should be using if they're not. It can also remove trackers, redirects and other shenanigans from links before committing to the click
  
  Right? I didn't even know all of the times I've clicked links that had trackers on it before using this app, or to remove amp links and such too. I'm not 100% sure what the "scan" function does however.
  
  the scan button is added by the url scanner module. it can do a virustotal check
  
  Ah that's right, forgot.
- FYI, you need to insert an additional Return ¿ or the text will align with your image's left-hand side and throw off the comment formatting. The extra line of space will either place the text above or below the image instead of on its hip.
  
  Ah okay thanks. Is that true, independent of the app I am using? Reason I ask is that I am currently using Sync, but I'm looking into other apps (Voyager specifically)
  
  I couldn't say with any certainty whether or not your choice of app would affect formatting, or how, as I only use one and it's not Sync.
  Theoretically, formatting rules don't vary widely from one program to the next, as it's all pretty standard stuff tracing back to standard practice for publishers' typeset or even typewriters when you get right down to it. The enter key is literally a downward & left-hooked arrow indicative of the advance-page (rotate up and away from user/keyboard to place cursor below already-written text) & return to left margin action on a typewriter, which is what including the space will accomplish in this scenario.
  
  Ah okay thanks. I'll have to play around with the apps I am trying out then. I switched over to Voyager to reply to this comment, and looking back through the original post, comments and such seems to be rendered better in voyager than sync, and I know it's been a while since sync has been updated, so it may just be a case of that app getting more and more out of date.
  In any case, thank you for your reply!
- samsung internet? why?
  
  Depends on what I'm doing, most of the time it's Firefox with noscript running, ad block, privacy badger, decentraleyes, etc. but if I need to log into, say like a bank website, I'll use Samsung Internet. I know it's underpinnings are chromium, but I dunno, feels better than using straight up chrome I guess.
  
  why not just use firefox for the bank? is the website broken?
  
  I mean I could, I'd have to disable noscript for that site, which isn't hard to do, but since URLcheck just lets me pick which browser I want to use, I'm just being lazy about disabling my Firefox extensions lol
  
  followup: here is its docs: https://noscript.net/usage/
  
  Ah neat, thank you!
  
  I think you can add per-site exceptions in noscript, so you don't need to disable the whole addon

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