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proactivesvcs
on March 20, 2022
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Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID t...
Ironic headline for a site which immediately throws up a full-page interstitial asking for my email address.
jjice
on March 20, 2022
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Email and government ID are very different, and the headline isn't coming off as a hit piece, so I don't think this is ironic.
josephcsible
on March 20, 2022
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Will Google in Australia have a button that lets you skip the identification process but see the content anyway? No, so those aren't even remotely similar.
quickthrower2
on March 20, 2022
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Yeah that pattern makes me think "this is spam"
nmilo
on March 20, 2022
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How is that ironic?
reaperducer
on March 20, 2022
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The same way "rain on your wedding day" is ironic.
It's not.
mechanical_bear
on March 20, 2022
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Oooh oooh, do the spoons one next!
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