infosex.exchange <3

You are probably looking for the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance

This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.

Discoverability and Archiving

Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.

Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.

Gluttony Section for Search Engines

[RSS] LLVM Adventures: Fuzzing Apache Modules

https://pwner.gg/blog/2026-03-20-apatchy
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@airwhale @13reak Ironically, the publisher went out of business shortly after this article (and its follow-up) came out because the no-ads, optional subscription model didn't work out for them...
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@jerry yes + they had that likely related fuckup with the not-really-revoked cert, resulting in the compromise of their gov cloud.
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@jerry You mean other than the recent MS thing?
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@airwhale @13reak

"companies spending money with the adtech companies do see returns" - Not necessarily, as measuring conversion rates is not easy. If you see that without G your visits plummet (as measured by G) you go back to G. Recommended:

https://thecorrespondent.com/125/the-non-sense-of-online-advertising-when-the-numbers-dont-add-up

I'm not familiar with news specifically, but I assume they don't partner with advertisers directly, but through an ad network, which is in the end owned by Meta or G, who can ~arbitrarily set their prices/payouts?
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Township Rebellion & Fab Massimo - Labyrinth

https://soundcloud.com/township-rebellion/township-rebellion-fab-massimo?in=township-rebellion%2Fsets%2Freleases
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@sassdawe lol OK that makes sense :D I thought you want to exclude advertisers.
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@sassdawe Who would scare away their best customers (in this case, companies with the highest turnover rates)? :)
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@13reak @airwhale Yes, this is what I mean.

You are right that these are extremely powerful tools, still I feel like most customers (by count, not invoices) are just burning their money on adtech, because that's what everybody does, while you don't have to be Nassim Taleb to see that the numbers justifying the spend are rigged.
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@13reak @airwhale Oh GDPR avoidance is a great reason to operate like this!

I think we are talking about different things re: company revenues: as I understand these companies use data to do marketing - this can be translated to money, sure. But how is it possible that these marketing companies work with finances comparable to e.g. Exxon?
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