feel free to waste your time and ask anyway!

Are you staring in the sequel to Rampart?

IE in the 2000's called, it wants it's dream back.

Between this, hobbling adblockers and performing enough monopolistic acts to warrant swift government action, I really see this more as Chrome dying than the web itself.

It's probably pretty straightforward, if clicks are what they're looking to increase as a metric, then sorting by rising was probably not meeting their expectations in terms of clickrate.

Sure, let me explain:

JSTOR is an online repository where institutions pay a subscription for access to an online library. Aaron Swartz worked to download the entire online library to ensure that it could be provided to all for free. I think it's safe to say that if he were alive today, he would be very much against the actions of his former co-founder, and would be leading the charge.

annnnd it's gone!

You've just been BEAN'D!!! 😱🤣🤫

No oldies remember Camino? It was such a great browser!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_(web_browser)

They were always going to do that, the squeeze is basically required if you're planning on making a public offering and become beholden to investors.

Now just imagine for a moment, the same company in the late 2000s taking a completely different path. Imagine they offered the moderators to become worker-owners and Reddit became a cooperative rather than investor owned.

Imagine how much better the world would have been, and weep for the timeline capitalism just extracted from everyone.