{"id":1052,"date":"2010-10-12T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2010-10-12T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:47:47","slug":"skype-rejects-filthy-internet-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/12\/skype-rejects-filthy-internet-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype rejects filthy internet users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use Skype?<\/p>\n<p>Are you WEIRD enough to own MORE THAN ONE computer?<\/p>\n<p>(or gullible enough to want to download the LATEST version of Skype?)<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; f***-off! Skype is desperate to prevent you using their service.<\/p>\n<h4>Download &#8230; FAIL<\/h4>\n<p>Try to download skype today, and you&#8217;ll get:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2010-10-12-at-13.42.57.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2010-10-12-at-13.42.57.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-10-12 at 13.42.57\" width=\"711\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2010-10-12-at-13.42.57.png 711w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2010-10-12-at-13.42.57-150x77.png 150w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2010-10-12-at-13.42.57-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a recent development &#8230; I downloaded skype a month ago, and this crap wasn&#8217;t there back then. For the last 5 years, if you wanted to download Skype, it was a single-click from the front page. Now it&#8217;s not even *on* the front-page, and they&#8217;ve added this &#8220;don&#8217;t download&#8221; barrier.<\/p>\n<p>Net effect &#8230; I&#8217;m not using Skype today. I&#8217;ve got better things to do than jump through hoops to login to a website and be spammed with advertising to use a service *I AM ALREADY PAYING FOR*.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me there&#8217;s a wave of clueless marketing people working for internet corporates these days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use Skype? Are you WEIRD enough to own MORE THAN ONE computer? (or gullible enough to want to download the LATEST version of Skype?) Well &#8230; f***-off! Skype is desperate to prevent you using their service. Download &#8230; FAIL Try to download skype today, and you&#8217;ll get: It&#8217;s a recent development &#8230; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}