Yes. But it was less annoying. Back in the day, I got all of my gaming news out of a physical magazine. That means people with a hyped-up scammy product had no

Yes. But it was less annoying. Back in the day, I got all of my gaming news out of a physical magazine. That means people with a hyped-up scammy product had no way of reaching me unless they could convince the writer at that magazine that they were legit. Nowadays, all of the grifters can email me directly and/or create SEO-optimized websites and/or pay Google/Facebook to shove ads into my face. The democratization of communication has made scams much more annoying.