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Anon finds a bot (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 16 points 20 hours ago

As others highlighted:

This only helps the bots. It's useless against stalking, since you can still find a list of the person's post/comments by searching their username in Google or even Reddit itself. And a stalker, unlike someone trying to denounce bots, will do it.

If anything this harms users. A false sense of security is worse than accurately feeling unsafe.

And the motivation for that is clearly to hide the bots. Bots give you metrics. Metrics give you ad views. Ad views give you money.