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I'm sharing this because it's fun, and can be a nice diversion from all the doomscrolling. There are lots of puzzles and random digital knick knacks. Enjoy!

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Ahhh, this reminds me how much I miss StumbleUpon.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Stumbleupon was how I found Reddit !

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Sad times. Stumble upon was great!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

StumbleUpon was the best. I do miss it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was a fun find, and I love the variety. Some of the sites are dumb fun. Some are games and puzzles. Others are just something completely different.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might be too young. They’re referring to a service called StumbleUpon that did almost exactly what you posted here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Pepperridge farms remembers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That website was a gem. They fucking ruined it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It was great, the internet was new and people just had fun with it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I miss StumbleUpon for this very reason

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's the first thing I thought about. Such a good nugget.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This is a screenshot from uBlock Origin, an ad-blocker for browsers. Red means that something is in a block list. There is a lot of red, which means this website uses a lot of stuff that tracks the user or serves ads.

That being said, I've seen much worse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Are you suggesting that it's not useless?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately not, the site has been having some problems today. It should run a loop of this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here's the first random site I got: https://alwaysjudgeabookbyitscover.com/

Silly.

I love it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You might also enjoy a selection from Hark, a Vagrant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Today will be another productive day!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Pointlesssites.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link. Not a bad distraction! I hope there's a large catalog in case I want to treat it like the random Stumble button of yore (which I must have hit hundreds of times at least).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Per hour? It's all a blur to me at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what a "Pugina" was, should have just clicked the link