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"internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl".

• dredmorbius 7mo ago
  "Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015: "A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015) <https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/ https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>
  • functionmouse 7mo ago
    Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.
    • mikestew 7mo ago
      Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box.
      • dredmorbius 7mo ago
        On Enterprise, configured by policy, no less, one would assume.
    • dredmorbius 7mo ago
      That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.