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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Because of crap like this is why I haven't been on any mainstream social media for 7+ years. And where do companies get off going over employees' personal crap anyway? For the record, I believe EVERYONE hates Mondays.

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wtf is this page

Keep scrolling below to see how the employee responded to all this nonsense.

I actually did, you have to scroll for like a minute past comments (?) and ads to see the rest of this "article". Wow, hello future entry on my block list.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i didn't encounter any adds; are you using ublock origin? chrome?

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I checked again and you are right, what I saw was just some other article images. I do use ublock so I should have been tipped off that those shouldn't be ads. Still the rest is true and cutting an article for some weird kind of user engagement is very silly.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

yes, it's old news to me and probably you; but i think it bares repeating since there will always be someone who didn't already know.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I always move straight to the screen shots. These are feeds I get via RSS, so I never actually "browse" that site.