It's not that they just found out, but more that they have combed through and prepared all of the information they could legally release.
Agreed. And in a way, it is also a contributing factor to how polarizing internet-based discussion has become. Rather than show you the most cited websites for answering a political question, it's going to use its profile of "you" to show you something you're more likely to engage with.
Ah yes, it needs my political or religious beliefs for fraud prevention.
Billy Gunn in shambles
I've been having constant issues connecting to lemmy.world for around a week now. Normally its "webpage is unresponsive" errors. Others like lemmy.ml have been loading fast and easily for me.
Progress? Either that or their site got overloaded.
It reminds me of a story that a web developer who found out that other sites were hosting his game by linking back to his website in an iframe and using it to make money off of ads. He made a check that if any calls are being made to the game from an iframe, replace the game with an image of goatse.
https://www.pcgamer.com/websites-stole-and-monetized-a-free-browser-game-so-the-designer-replaced-it-with-goatse/