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Patrick Oonk 🔵 @patrickoonk.net

What to do about it? I just leave. I left PayPal, I left Tripadvisor, I left Vivino.

aug 31, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 0

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Peter Collinson @petercollinson.bsky.social

That's exactly what to do. Ceasing to give them your money is the very best recourse. Encourage everyone to follow suit.

aug 31, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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Patrick Oonk 🔵 @patrickoonk.net

Not only that. On Tripadvisor I deleted 15 years of reviews and picture so they couldn't monetize those any more.

sep 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Peter Collinson @petercollinson.bsky.social

It's amazing - the level of diligence required to fully erase your presence from the corporate memory banks.

sep 1, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Patrick Oonk 🔵 @patrickoonk.net

I don't understand this greed. In 1995 I made something similar to Craigslist but before Craigslist, and also a double anonymous dating site. We never asked money for it because we thought it was a nice way of using of the than budding internet. The people that bought our company in 1997 killed it.

sep 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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Patrick Oonk 🔵 @patrickoonk.net

The poor fools, they could have made millions in a sustainable way.

sep 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view