[ronsor]

But I love internet chum! Don't forget "new law thing"; that's an important category.

[wlesieutre]

If you live in California, insurance companies don't want you to know this

[sudoshred]

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

[dredmorbius]

"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-intern...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>

[functionmouse]

Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.

[mikestew]

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]

On Enterprise, configured by policy, no less, one would assume.

[dredmorbius]

That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.