https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing this kind. It’s not unusual, although I never liked it either

I believe I used it on reddit, long ago but there were no ads. I was surprised since no other client I know of has them (and no lemmy server has ads).

I use voyager, it’s great.

“This is going very poorly, we will pretend to listen to our customers so it looks like we are course correcting, winning favor with investors and customers (big businesses, not home users).”

They may even switch CEOs if the situation worsens, but the practices remain.

Why does your lemmy client have ads?

and the system prompt for any modern coding agent is going to include cautionary instructions warning the AI not to follow any instructions that might be embedded in the text.

Telling the bot to not please not let itself get hacked, what a novel idea that has only failed each time it’s attempted.

It is praised for its anonymity, and it uses an algorithm that purposefully works worse on GPUs and probably ASICS, but don’t quote me on that.

A lot of malware bundles miners for it because of it.