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Tell HN: (dictionary|thesaurus).reference.com is now a spam site

51 points akkartik | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 18:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.46s | source

I use it all the time, so this must be recent.
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mdaniel ◴[29 Jun 25 19:19 UTC] No.44415566[source]▶
I'm just curious: does your local dictionary and thesaurus lack some feature that those sites used to provide for you? Maybe I'm just in a privileged position because the dictionary and thesaurus Spotlight integration is so handy, and I'd bet that Windows doesn't have nice things, or if they have them they're now also enshittified
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loloquwowndueo ◴[29 Jun 25 20:02 UTC] No.44415935[source]▶
Gee you make it sound like Windows and macOS are the only games in town :)
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1. hackyhacky ◴[29 Jun 25 20:09 UTC] No.44416000[source]▶
Good point. There is also a VMS dictionary: https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-dcl-dictionary-a-m/
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2. throwaway843 ◴[30 Jun 25 01:28 UTC] No.44418285[source]▶
AmigaOS had dictioary.library which AmigaWriter used as could any other app, such as Lemmings.