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ronsor 7 hours ago

But I love internet chum! Don't forget "new law thing"; that's an important category.

wlesieutre 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you live in California, insurance companies don't want you to know this

sudoshred 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl".

dredmorbius 5 hours ago | parent [-]

"Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015:

"A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015)

<https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>

functionmouse 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.

mikestew an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box.

	▲	dredmorbius 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		On Enterprise, configured by policy, no less, one would assume.

dredmorbius 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

That is an absolute stone dead cold soul-sucking statement.