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These reader-oriented top-level Blogspot domains are really starting to piss me off. (The posted URL is blogspot.se, while the author is Pike, who is in the U.
by pasbesoin 15y ago
These reader-oriented top-level Blogspot domains are really starting to piss me off.
(The posted URL is blogspot.se, while the author is Pike, who is in the U.S. and most likely uses blogspot.com for his access.)
What, again, is the rationale for this? Other than enabling some sort of lame country-specific filtering?
P.S. Or is it in part specifically to provide a route around the U.S.'s arbitrary domination/control of .com domains? Symbolic as well, if practically speaking the U.S. government is unlikely to just shut down blogspot.com .
So, I guess I'm going from pissed off to trying to remember past conversation/explanation around this change.
- willvarfar 15y agomy bad, didn't spot that when I posted it; hadn't even noticed I got redirected to a .se version before. I'm presuming its the same content.
- pasbesoin 15y agoI didn't mean to address particular annoyance at the poster. If annoyance is merited (I'm no longer sure, but based just on the concept/precept of having a "unique" or canonical-shared identifier for content, I'm troubled), then it would be at Blogspot for creating this circumstance.
- willvarfar 15y agoMore a surprise than offense. If blogspot hadn't tried to localise me, I'd have submitted a .com link and HN would have spotted that this story is actually a dupe and we wouldn't be pondering this topic all over again .... :)
- pasbesoin 15y agoOk, so now I should be annoyed at you, for posting a dupe. ;-)