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StumbleUpon Is Shutting Down After 16 Years of Service (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: After launching in 2002, website discovery platform StumbleUpon is shutting down on June 30. Over its existence, the service racked up 60 billion stumbles for 40 million users, cofounder Garrett Camp wrote in a Medium post this week.

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  1. Too bad, but by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use StumbleUpon all the time. It's a great way to pass time.

    BUT!

    The thing has become a true privacy nightmare lately. If you use it without Noscript or uBlock Origin, you're bonkers: for any page that has, say, 10 scripts (and 8 are trackers), the same page referenced within the StumbleUpon "window" has hundred, even thousands of extra trackers tacked on.

    It's so crazy I have to pretty much disable all scripts, and yank the URL of whatever page looks of interest from within the StumbleUpon URL (thankfully easy to extract) to paste it in another tab and view it normally.

    So yeah, I'll miss SU. I won't miss the sneaky privacy invasion and over-the-top monetization attempts though...

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  2. Re:Stumble by rtb61 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    PS it seems they are not really shutting down as much as product shifting to mix.com. It seems they wish to be more of a influencer for profit, than straight here's a random popular web site in one of your categories. Their home page seems to be heavily main stream media biased, horribly so. Is it in any way stumbleupon, nope, real marketing boondoggle it sucks balls.

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