But the broader point beyond my specific snipe -- which is personal and driven by deep anger over a serious problem affecting me personally -- the broader issue is not only that Pinterest is on the whole an anti-social actor because of its garbage moderation and promotion of harmful content in its algorithms, it is more broadly a bad actor in the web ecosystem generally.
They hijack search results by scraping and stealing content, hiding the original link, and try to trap you in their circle of links.
In this day and age of people getting sued and slapped down for legitimate webscraping, it boggles my mind that Pinterest gets away with what they do.
On the whole a swamp of an unethical company. F*ck pinterest.
(But love that the commenter couldn't help but turn the thread into an underhanded comment against "fat people". Oh so typical.)
But the broader point beyond my specific snipe -- which is personal and driven by deep anger over a serious problem affecting me personally -- the broader issue is not only that Pinterest is on the whole an anti-social actor because of its garbage moderation and promotion of harmful content in its algorithms, it is more broadly a bad actor in the web ecosystem generally.
They hijack search results by scraping and stealing content, hiding the original link, and try to trap you in their circle of links.
In this day and age of people getting sued and slapped down for legitimate webscraping, it boggles my mind that Pinterest gets away with what they do.
On the whole a swamp of an unethical company. F*ck pinterest.
(But love that the commenter couldn't help but turn the thread into an underhanded comment against "fat people". Oh so typical.)