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My god, click the privacy button on that site if you want to be horrified. What even is the linked article? The vast majority is just directly quoting a differ
by jtsiskin 6y ago
My god, click the privacy button on that site if you want to be horrified.
What even is the linked article? The vast majority is just directly quoting a different article. The one part which isn’t just a direct quote which looks possibly like it’s own “reporting”, the one sentence at the start, is actually just directly lifted from the quoted article as well, absolutely nothing is added.
Then the quoted article has so many random words highlighted linking to either tenuously related articles or the same content just rehashed slightly differently.
Is this what the web is now? Content farms ripping content farms all competing to send your precise location and browsing history to as many partners as they can? How many lifetime-hours are spent on this? Depressing...
- someonehere 6y agoThis is why I pulled BoingBoing from my RSS feed. They were regurgitating other news article like Buzzfeed and Mashable. They used to have good original content but I don’t know what changed.
- helloworld11 6y agoJust completely stop visiting toxic dumpster fire websites like boingboing and its ilk for any reason whatsoever, and problem solved on a personal level. They'll still be there screwing other readers, but you can at least know you dodged revolting nonsense. The web still has good content from sites that are at least semi-reasonable about creating their own value without desperately tracking everything you do.
- joehenriod 6y agoAre you asking how many hours are wasted creating this or by digesting this? Because I can assure you that very little is actually spent on the creation side, which is kind of the point.