i have no idea, i imagine its automated crawling of all lemmy sites
makotech222
joined 4 years ago
If you're wondering why hexbear suddenly seems to run a lot faster in the past few days, it is because we discovered that we were being crawled a whole bunch by various entities (including Meta), and blocked almost all of them. We were maxing out our bandwidth limit because of them.
how do you measure performance of an llm? ask it how many 'r's there are in 'strawberry' and how many times you have to say 'no thats wrong' until it gets 3
Theres lots of speculation that apps like facebook listen in on the mic even without permission. I dunno how true that is, but a browser app absolutely cannot do that.
this reminds me of a very specific doujinshi... lmaooo 
native apps have access to the OS and can get stuff like location, messages, etc (if you allow permission, sometimes even without) and can also inject ads.
What do you mean by images not showing in the feed? They work normally for me i think?
abandon the app ideology and just use firefox + install pwa for all the sites. Get the benefit of a sandbox browser + can use adblock extension in firefox.
clear all cookies and cache should likely fix it. otherwise make sure you don't have addons that delete cookies
just saying that we ended up just blocking all the crawlers instead of trapping them.