Newsletter: Getting revenge on ‘blinding’ car lights

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Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr. 

Happy Friday! Our top stories today are about: How to get revenge on those annoying “blinding” headlights people have on their cars, how no one can really track how much Elon Musk’s DOGE is cutting, how there’s an elaborate crypto scam going around that uses calendar invites, and why the internet is coping with the frequent plane crashes using memes. 

After that, the trending team shares with you their pick for “Main Character of the Week.” 

Also: Don’t forget to take our weekly news quiz! If you guess the answer correctly, you might win a “Scrolling In The Deep” shirt! 

See ya tomorrow! 

— A.W. 

Today in Internet Culture

REVENGE
‘Cannot stand these new LEDs’: Driver gets tired of other cars’ ‘blinding’ headlights. Then she gets back at them using this simple trick

There’s a simple way to get back at folks rocking those exceedingly bright headlights.

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VIRAL POLITICS
DOGE has saved Americans $55 billion. Or $24 billion. Or just $1.5 billion

A spate of trackers keeping an eye on DOGE’s contract terminations has sprung up—including on DOGE’s own website—and no one can say, for sure, just how much Musk’s merry band of cost-cutting coders is accomplishing.

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SCAMS
An elaborate crypto scam is using Google Calendar invites to hijack verified X accounts

Cryptocurrency scammers are using a sophisticated phishing method against a number of prominent political figures and journalists, compromising dozens of accounts to push coins.

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MEMES
The internet is coping with plane crashes the only way it knows how…memes

With the recent and frequent plane crashes, folks online have taken to dark humor in posting plane crash memes.

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IN A RECENT VIRAL POST, A PERSON SAID THEY GOT THEIR CONSERVATIVE RELATIVE TO MISTAKENLY BELIEVE WHAT KIND OF FOOD WAS ACTUALLY ‘WOKE’?

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Main Character of the Week: Frustrating Toyota dealership purchase

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Crawling the Web

Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.

There’s been a noticeable surge in users leaving Facebook recently.

A Subaru service tech worker was caught unhooking a customer’s dashcam. Unbeknownst to the employee, however, was that they were still being recorded.

This woman’s experience with blinds in her Hilton hotel room is bonkers.

A Hot Topic shopper was shocked when they peeled back the price sticker and it showed something they didn’t expect.

 Did you know about this shopping trick? One Walmart customer is getting a lot of attention after showing it off in a video with nearly 700,000 views.

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