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Temu faces deadline from EU over illegal product sales

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  1. [6]
    cfabbro
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    @Advanced, you keep posting these digwatch articles, and AFAICT they are just copying, slightly rewording, and/or summarizing details from other sites that they even link to in the digwatch...
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    @Advanced, you keep posting these digwatch articles, and AFAICT they are just copying, slightly rewording, and/or summarizing details from other sites that they even link to in the digwatch articles. E.g. In this Temu article they link to a Euronews article which has all of the same details in it. And the X/Twitter, Kaspersky, and crypto fraud digwatch articles you posted earlier similarly link to a Reuters article, the Kaspersky blog and a cryptonewsz article, all of which they appear to have copied their information from.

    This digwatch site doesn't feel like a proper journalistic endeavor, it feels like a straight-up link jacking racket. And TBH, given how minor most of the changes are, I suspect these digwatch articles are actually AI generated too (which @Deimos has already stated he does not want posted here), especially since the DiploFoundation operating the digwatch site seems to be heavily promoting its AI tools. As well as the fact that there is no actual authors listed for the articles, which is another red flag when it comes to news sites, IMO.

    I know you want to avoid paywalls and object to copyrighted articles on ideological grounds, but I don't think that should push you towards posting dubious sources like this instead of the primary sources of the information.

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      I read your comment when you posted it and I wanted to process it before I answer back, to be honest with you, I am kind of undecided here. But for keeping the best news sources here, I would not...

      I read your comment when you posted it and I wanted to process it before I answer back, to be honest with you, I am kind of undecided here.

      But for keeping the best news sources here, I would not post from this website anymore till any news rating agency rate their credibility or till they post an original investigation.

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      1. cfabbro
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        Fair enough. If it ever does get rated, please let me know, since I would be curious to read about it. And even if we disagree, thanks for being so responsive and open to the criticism of your...

        Fair enough. If it ever does get rated, please let me know, since I would be curious to read about it. And even if we disagree, thanks for being so responsive and open to the criticism of your submissions.

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        creesch
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        May I ask how you are approaching posting things on Tildes? The reason I am asking is twofold. The first one is that this is the second discussion I see around your submission sources. The second...

        May I ask how you are approaching posting things on Tildes? The reason I am asking is twofold. The first one is that this is the second discussion I see around your submission sources. The second reason is that when I look at your profile, I see you posting quite a lot (for Tildes) in a way that reminds me of how people post on reddit. A fairly random assortment of articles with very little interaction from you about them.

        The fact that you are posting about a wide variety of subjects might just be because you as a person have a very broad interest in all sorts of things. But then I would expect a bit more in the way of interaction on them. Not all submissions, but at least on some I would expect an initial thought or two, and I don't see that on the majority of your submissions.

        On some subjects this doesn't matter all that much, they can stand on their own or attract enough people to get a discussion started as well. But for others that doesn't work, and they would benefit from some additional thoughts as to why you posted them.

        I might be entirely off the mark here, but as I said, it does remind me of reddit. Where, in my experience, it often happened for two reasons. The first one I don't think is happening here where people would do that and sprinkle in articles from websites they have involvement in to benefit from it. The second one would be simply because of that karma number. While Tildes does show a vote score for individual articles, it doesn't have a karma score. It also isn't what determines the order of what people see, in fact it can differ per person. Personally, I have it set to comments in the past 24 hours and also have a bookmark for activity (basically like old forums). So the score of a post isn't nearly important on Tildes as it would be on reddit.

        I don't think you are doing something wrong outright. Just some things that came to mind and I wanted to share. Again, me making the connection with reddit posting patterns might be entirely off the mark. If it is not, I am just offering it as feedback.

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          Advanced
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          I can see from your profile that you mostly use this account for commenting and that is how you approach Tildes. The way I approach Tildes and social media in general, is when I see something...

          I can see from your profile that you mostly use this account for commenting and that is how you approach Tildes.

          The way I approach Tildes and social media in general, is when I see something interesting or noteworthy I like to share it and even discuss it if there is a interesting discussion.

          Writing about the reason I shared a research paper, blog or news article here is kind of weird, for example some time ago I shared a interesting article for me by a security researcher where he investigated a bad company that published a addon which collect your data and claim to plant trees from this, I shared it because it was super interesting for me.

          I have other social media accounts where I use them from time to time and I follow the same pattern.

          I think the only place where I lurk without posting is image boards(Hard Captcha) and Reddit( I don't want to contribute there).

          So in short here: you would see me posting here about things I find interesting overall.

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          1. creesch
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            That's absolutely fine, I am not saying you should comment in the same way I do. Because you are right, I comment a lot. Which was also not the focus of what I said. What I was saying is that...

            That's absolutely fine, I am not saying you should comment in the same way I do. Because you are right, I comment a lot. Which was also not the focus of what I said.

            What I was saying is that this:

            I see something interesting or noteworthy I like to share it and even discuss it if there is a interesting discussion.

            I don't see. Which does stand out a bit. Again, for the reasons I explained.
            And again, just some feedback on perception.