• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago
    1. NYT writes article
    2. Roboticist tweets about one fact in it
    3. Substack blogger turns that tweet into a sensational headline

    You can just watch the different food chains interacting here from legit media to independent authority to bottom feeding headline-shagger.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, the substack article seems to be freely accessible, while the NYT isn’t. I understand the whole supporting journalists angle, but having to sign up to read stuff so they can more easily correlate what I click on and sell usage pattern data rubs me the wrong way.

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        1 year ago

        I’m a paying NYT subscriber so I guess “supporting journalists” (why did you even put this in quotes?) is more important to me than “vague fears” of “personalized advertising” which are probably much the same on every “website” in “the world.”

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          why did you even put this in quotes?

          IDK, it’s early morning and I felt like it was an established term. I’m sure I was thinking something, but I can’t reconstruct just what. I’ll fix that.

          I have a personal distaste for login-walls. I’m fine with disabling my adblocker for sites I trust and enjoy, but I just don’t like walled-off content. I’m doing my best to avoid tracking cookies, including manually going through the cookie settings on those notifications and clearing cookies on sites I don’t need to stay logged in on. Courtesy of GDPR and judging by the variety of irrelevant ads I do get, I like to think I’m doing a mostly solid job.

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      1 year ago

      4: Insightful comments on Reddit / lemmy tearing apart the sensationalism, but getting buried under lame jokes.