I'm in the same boat as you. I have been running since the summer and I recently finished a couch to 5km plan. My pace is similar at 35-38 minutes. Do you have any tips on going from 38 to 25 minutes? Thanks
I think you're right about it pushing them further over the edge. The other thing is, what's stopping them from creating more and more image boards/chans in the longer term? Will this end up being a whackamole game between the botters and 4chan posters?
It also begs the question. What if they were botting the communities you personally enjoy and love? Is it ethical for them to do it?
>Their only edge is the '!' syntax which I haven't yet bothered to find an independent solution for.
I simply mimic that bang behavior using my browser's ability to add custom searches. It's a slight pain to set up on a fresh install because of all the extra addresses I manually plug in but once done, I'm not necessarily tied to any search engine. If you're in Chromium you can right-click on the address bar and see the option to select "manage search engines." From there just start editing commands and changing things from ":yt" to "!yt" like we're used to. yt being a YouTube search.
Your usage might be vastly different than mine but I found myself using sipmle things like !yt (youtube) or !hn (hackernews search) for the most part. Hardly anything beyond that and a few specific Wikis.
For what it's worth, Brave's search engine also uses that ! bang feature though I'm not sure to what extent compared to DuckDuckGo.
Same story with me with one thing added: never thought I would be doing the whole digital currency thing (BAT in this case) and now I'm doing small contributions to independent sites/content creators.