Phil

And then you do it in a web browser and open developer mode

Does no one remember the Ellen Pao era

I think there’s a difference between typos and the grammar of someone learning the language.

Meaning that you can usually differentiate between a native speaker of your language typing hastily and not bothering to correct themselves of clean up, vs a new person learning your language speaking in a generally broken manner. I think by typos OP was referring to the first case, and was probably not accusing ESL learners for having imperfect grammar.

To add to that, searching isn’t as simple as “best laptops reddit” if the knowledge is spread across the fediverse. That’s something I’d be interested to see

Eh. You never know. People leave breadcrumbs of useful info in what they deem not useful. Further, things that you might not think twice about (ex: casually mentioning what car you drive, a coffee shop you went to that day) might reveal a lot of information (eg: your political leaning, rough geographic info etc). If you still have access to an old account, dig through your comments pretending to be a spy (or marketing agent) trying to learn as much about you as possible, with 0 prior knowledge - you might be surprised how much you learn.

I wonder how legal that is, and if there’s grounds for a class action

I believe that’s a Lemmy bug requiring an instance restart