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I'm very pissed off with Blogger. They are making people sign in on blogger so they can see 'adult' blogs. And they have tried to cut every way they have come up to be able to view them:

Wow I’m upset. I can’t read Sixpence’s blog anymore. To see the blog you have always had to click through the “This is an adult blog” warning, but then those jerks at Google decided that you needed to sign in with a Google account to read Sixpence’s posts. There is no way in the world I am willing to log in so Google can know everything about my naughty blog habits, but fortunately I was able to use a non-Javascript browser to get past that. The jerks at Google are good engineers, though, and now that doesn’t work either.

@Lurkie

And this is also going on with YouTube. All of Google is now figuratively 'protected' with one of those electronic dog fences. What I think is that Google is terrified Bing is gonna kick its AI ass and it's now demanding that people create a google account to see blogs like mine. They want to rope you in and make sure you're using a google product:

ChatGPT has helped Microsoft’s Bing search engine reach 100 million daily active users. 

Microsoft announced(Opens in a new window) the news a month after the company integrated OpenAI’s chatbot program into Bing, which has long struggled to chip away at Google Search's market share.

The ChatGPT integration with Bing is still in preview mode and accessible via a waitlist. But even so, Microsoft has seen a “million+” preview users routinely try the new Bing over the past month. 

Bing still faces a huge uphill battle against Google, which has over a billion users. “We are fully aware we remain a small, low, single digit share player,” says Microsoft Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi. “That said, it feels good to be at the dance!”

@PC

Well, that and that the Repugs are telling their base they are implementing totally fascist laws with the excuse to protect children when they are doing the opposite and Google is covering its ass. So now they don't let people who are not signed on google see my blog (and any blog with an adult disclaimer and that includes Upton's, Big's and many blogs I read daily). Now you have to be Google VIP ready to post in any blog with a disclaimer. 

@Big wrote about this too:

Readership is down by 50% since Blogger instituted the new age / account requirements. On the one hand, it makes sense. They're ensuring that regulatory bodies won't find that it's easy for underage folks to view what is considered Adult Material. On the other, it doesn't; it feels like greed. They're forcing people to set up a Google account, which boosts their bottom line and increases stock value.

Fuckers. I don't really care about readership (my blog is not monetized) but I do want people who belong to my little tribe to be able to read what I post. And that should include people with WordPress blogs. After all, I can post on their blogs using Google. Isn't that ironic, Alanis?

So today I'm posting smut (so that warning you see is actually worth your time) and I'm going to also post this in a little ghost WordPress account I have (I started it when that stupid asshole troll started fucking with my posts) because I can't deal with well with stupidity and outright fuckery.  Don't try me, Google, don't try me. Hell hath no fury like a gay blogger pissed off. I also wonder when WordPress will start doing the same thing Google is doing, though. Because this could just the beginning of the end.

XOXO

P.S. Talking about @AllenKing (who is one of my fav power bottoms/pocket gays in porn because he's taken on most of the giants in the industry) here you go: 

With Sir Peter

With Caio Veyron

With a probable BF??

But of course, my fav Allen King moment is his epic fuck with Rocco Steele: The Little Prince (and no, it does not have anything to do with de Saint-Exupery)

@squirt

Lucky, lucky boy...