On: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

[rhaksw]

This feature breaks hundreds of websites listed in a 5 year old issue [1]

The last descriptive update was 4 years ago,

> As the list is increasingly managed according to policy, breakage is a feature, not a bug.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101005

Among the broken websites is one I just completed, revddit, "removeddit for user pages":

https://revddit.com/user/rhaksw

[SquareWheel → rhaksw]

Are you the one that created this bot on reddit?

https://www.reddit.com/user/revddit/

Creating a bot to spam your own website is obviously against the site rules. I see most of your posts on Hacker News are similarly promotional.

[rhaksw → SquareWheel]

Promotion through censorship is what I meant to tackle when building the site, so I'm sorry if you feel the bot or citing it on HN is too promotional. Isn't this the place for sharing such work? If not here, where?

The bot itself only responds once per user or thread, and I've already blacklisted some subreddits per suggestions [1]. Feel free to pm me at u/rhaksw if you would like to discuss it further.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/bottiquette

[SquareWheel → rhaksw]

Your bot violates multiple rules of bottiquette:

>[Please don't] write bots that reply to comments or send private messages without solicitation.

>[Please don't] have your bot reply to every instance of a common word or phrase

It also violates the site's self-promotion guidelines.

It's a spambot, plain and simple. I have reported it as such.

[rhaksw → SquareWheel]

The site reflects users' own data, and I built it without pay. There are no ads. I am sorry you are upset about it.