We’ve had some trouble recently with posts from aggregator links like Google Amp, MSN, and Yahoo.

We’re now requiring links go to the OG source, and not a conduit.

In an example like this, it can give the wrong attribution to the MBFC bot, and can give a more or less reliable rating than the original source, but it also makes it harder to run down duplicates.

So anything not linked to the original source, but is stuck on Google Amp, MSN, Yahoo, etc. will be removed.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    MSN is cancerous and was barely usable the last few times I’ve been bamboozled into going there. Yahoo is the same, just easier to avoid. I honestly haven’t run into the Google one.

    They literally add nothing to the internet as far as I can tell.

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      2 months ago

      MSN is one of the biggest piece of shit middlemen I’ve seen on the Internet. Good riddance, and to be absolutely clear, I’m glad the mods are doing this.

      • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 months ago

        Glad just also wish it was for reasons other than the shit bot can’t handle it.

        Ffs just say it’s because they’re terrible and take away from the actual source not our shit bot has issues finding the actual source