Ars also went downhill after the Condé Nast acquisition. The titles are more clickbait, there are more sponsored stories, the comments section was redesigned t

Ars also went downhill after the Condé Nast acquisition. The titles are more clickbait, there are more sponsored stories, the comments section was redesigned to amplify controversy and railroading, there are more virtue stories, ... They even went as far as putting paid product placement for an expensive designer mask into one of their weekly early COVID19 updates, like it was some kind of lifestyle magazine and not ars/science.