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StumbleUpon Is Shutting Down After 16 Years of Service (techcrunch.com)
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.
You obviously completely oblivious to the use of stumbleupon, find it useful, what kind of nut are you, you were meant to find it fun. I can't understand why they aren't selling it and instead just shutting it down, seems really odd.
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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...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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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And nothing of value was lost.
more like 'merging' with mix.com, a different site created by the same co-founder.
techcrunch, of course and as usual, is guilty of publishing a shitty article that simply paraphrases the original post on medium and only glossed-over that very important detail at the very end.
read the original post from camp here instead:
https://medium.com/@gc/su-is-m...
basically, su users will still get a similar service, just at a different domain. big whooop.
I read that StumbleUpon is shutting down! That's the first I've hear of them. Why isn't there a service to help discover useful new sites? Oh, wait...
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According to The Verge, Mix.com is "a curation platform that incorporates your social media presence".
I'm pretty sure I want nothing to do with that!
Starships were meant to fly, Hands up and touch the sky - Nicky Minaj
The service is piercing our filter bubble, and giving people a dose of 'random' in dull moments.
Being able to step outside of our comfort zone, and skip to a part of the world wide web that we did not expect to be in. It's like setting a random course, turning on the warp drive, and stopping after a random period of time - to explore new life, and new civilizations. To boldly go where some people had gone before, but which might have otherwise lived and died as a niche part of the web that only some hipsters would know about. Unlike reddit which cultivated the "best" content of the web, stumbleupon connected people to parts of the web that they wouldn't normally go, showed them things through the eyes (and reviews) of people they wouldn't normally read.
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