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One thing that rubs me the wrong but same way about stories like this, certain layoffs, ads in paid subscriptions, the sales of personal data, and shoddy-safe p
by j-bos 3y ago
One thing that rubs me the wrong but same way about stories like this, certain layoffs, ads in paid subscriptions, the sales of personal data, and shoddy-safe planes falling out of the sky, is the insincerity of it. Verizon is charging a separate hidden fee, supposedly to pay for gov't fees, but it's not a gov't mandated fee. Anyone with eyes open can smell the double talk. It's tiresome to constantly be lied to and need to be guarding against institutional pickpockets.
- eek2121 3y agoWhat ads and what sale of data? Ars does not sell or give away paid subscriber data, and they certainly don't show ads to paid subscribers.
- danaris 3y agoI don't see anywhere in the GP a suggestion that anything in their criticism is directed at Ars Technica...
- j-bos 3y agoSorry for the lack of clarity. It was a general comment about certain trends I've been noticing and not specific to any one offender in particular. Certainly not Ars, I'm not familiar with them on that level.
- landedgentry 3y agoIt's exhausting. I wish there were a way to quantify this, because it feels more and more unabashed, egregious, common and normalized.
- p1mrx 3y agoMaybe they'll change course if we throw enough adjectives at them.