Technology

37730 readers

324 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

308

Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Eh I don't think it's malicious in nature but can't prove it either is or isn't. They might be doing more analysis on some outbound links or users for something or just A/B testing some additional methods for gathering more data. Unsure. But I wouldn't immediately jump to intentional.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But I wouldn’t immediately jump to intentional.

occam's razor says you should ;)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Hanlon's razor says you shouldn't.

All right, we got a razor fight!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hanlon’s razor says you shouldn’t.

yeah, but that applies to a problem where you don't have any additional information. if you do have background information of any kind, you would be wise to take them into account.