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10 of the Most Niche YouTube Video Essays You Absolutely Need to Watch
YouTube’s algorithm is designed to keep your eyeballs glued to video after video (after video, after video…). The dangers of this rabbit hole are well-documented. However, for every ideological radicalisation enabled by YouTube, I like to think there’s at least one innocent, newfound pop culture obsession discovered at 3 a.m. via the greatest medium of…
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How to Beat Social Media Algorithms (and Why You Should Try)
Social media platforms from TikTok to Twitter charge you nothing to use their services, except for, well, everything there is to know about you. Part of the strategy in that data collection comes from algorithms, which decide what kind of content to show you based on your past usage. Don’t make their data harvesting any…
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How to Make a Burner Account on Reddit, Even Though They Don’t Want You to Anymore
Reddit allows more anonymity than most other social media websites, particularly by allowing burner or throwaway accounts without using an email address. Lately, though, Reddit has made it harder to spot how to create these anonymous accounts — but you can still create throwaway Reddit accounts on desktop and on mobile.
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The Best of 404PageFound, and Other Primitive ’90s Websites That Still Exist
The idea that once something hits the internet, it’s there forever, isn’t true. Things disappear from the internet all the time, from once-thriving online communities being killed when their hosting company goes under, to publications that have their archives wiped, to personal sites that vanish when their owners stop paying the server bills. But the…