Maybe its just that they don't understand what they are doing, I don't want to place blame on somebody for doing something unawares. But it is extremely important nowadays to keep an eye out for these kinds of things.
You know who you are. I see what you're up to.
Well I post links from abc.net.au sometimes and they don't use https. So me using that is not actively removing the S.
If people are clicking on http sites, they either don't care or do care or are too apathetic or stupid to protect themselves from it. Either way, it's on them.
What would be the benefit of running a bot on Phuks?
Well I post links from abc.net.au sometimes and they don't use https. So me using that is not actively removing the S.
Its a different story if the site doesn't use https. Many news sites don't, so I don't find that suspicious. On the other hand, I know for a fact that archive.is does use https. Their search engine results all link to https, and I have to actually remove that 's' to get an http page to load.
If people are clicking on http sites, they either don't care or do care or are too apathetic or stupid to protect themselves from it.
You'll get no argument from me on this one.
Either way, it's on them.
Some might say its their duty to educate the stupid, but in essence you're correct. They're on the hook for their own actions.
What would be the benefit of running a bot on Phuks?
I can only guess at their personal motivation, but a bot like that would generally be useful for posting to multiple sites with a single button-press, or automatically posting from an RSS feed.
Motivations might include advertising one's own work, promoting one's ideology, sliding forums during times of bad PR events, spreading malicious links, or simply because you want to share information you like to all your favorite sites rather than just your little corner of the internet. Your guess is as good as mine.
If sidewalker is too kind too kind to speculate, I will. To my knowledge there are three reasons to actively remove an 's' from every link you post.
You have a way of tracking those links, and want to harvest metadata on users of semi-anon social media sites.
You're trying to get people used to clicking links with the "!" icon next to them, so that people will be more likely to click an actual nasty link in the future.
Your bot gets broken by https for some reason, which is why several high-post/low-comment users all stopped posting https links at the same time on multiple websites.