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I can't be the only one who feels The Register _IS_ a tabloid. Not tongue-in-cheek.

• crankylinuxuser 8y ago
  Yep. It feels like the "IT National Enquirer". * SEE WHAT INTERNET EXPLORDED DID BEHIND THE SCENES! * 10 SECRETS FIREFOX DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW * USING A FREE VPN? WHY NOT SKIP THE MIDDLEMAN AND SEND YOUR DATA TO XI JINGPING? * MICROSOFT: YOU LOOKIN AT ME FUNNY? OH, YOU JUST WANT TO SIGN IN (Btw, the last 2 are legit, from the website right now...)
  • admax88q 8y ago
    > USING A FREE VPN? WHY NOT SKIP THE MIDDLEMAN AND SEND YOUR DATA TO XI JINGPING? That's a great headline. What's your problem with it? Does IT journalism need to be dry and purely technical?
    • detritus 8y ago
      Somewhat ironically, The Register has a misbegotten step-sibling, https://www.theinquirer.net/ https://www.theinquirer.net/ [1], which tends towards the dry and purely technical and I've always found it thoroughly unenjoyable. [1] I can't remember the history [2], but long ago there was some disagreement and subsequent parting of ways and The Inquirer was born [2] Wikipedia does though, obviously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Register https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Register "[co-founder Mike] Magee left in 2001 to start competing publications The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner and TechEye."