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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It looks like they're dumping you if you hide the referral link based on the text.

Truly gross practice.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    they're using the css :visited attribute on a link to a HN thread to display the message.

    having passively followed asahi for some time (too poor to own a mac to actually try it out) the fact that they have to resort to shit like this is gross, but i 100% put the blame on HN for being an unmoderated trashfire (and explicitly bypassing the referrer based blocking asahi first had instead of, idk, actually moderating their site)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Thank you! Like is this kind of corny behavior? Sure, but maybe if HN wasn’t full of shitty people being actively enabled by a lack of moderation they wouldn’t have to try to do shit like this.

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