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If the aggregation site publishes enough of the news story within the aggregation site itself that the reader never follows the link the news site never gets a chance to show them ads.
This whole problem is rooted in the idea that the internet should be paid for by corporate propaganda, so I don’t shed a tear for anyone on either side of this.
Let me pay $5 a year for a login and give me an rss feed for your news network. I am now the customer and not a sack of attention that you’re using a minimum viable product to sell to your corporate owners. It’s a win win.
I’m already 90% done with YouTube since their discovery feature is totally broken. A feed with 40 videos, 25 of which I’ve already watched 5 that are right wing outrage porn and literally nothing I want to watch at all?
I have a few subscriptions that are on floatplane, nebula or peertube already that’s pretty much all I watch on YouTube since it’s so enshittified.
I’d happily pay for premium if yt would unfuck their suggestions, but if they decide to lock out adblock instead I’m totally gone.
I expect we’ll lose about 90% of the web within five years as this becomes normalized.
It will primarily be the seo driven AI crap driven ripoff regurgitated shitfest that’s arisen in the last 5 years tho.
I’ll be waiting for a search engine to arise that only shows user controllable presentation and will use that.
A way to filter out the corporate trash will make the human web better, not worse.
I have never wanted any apple anything. The chassis styling is not my bag, the “innovations” they try to force on to the industry are even worse.
I do admit that many many people think that it was peak laptop and apple still makes basically the same laptop.
My daily driver is an asus g14. I can see framework getting popular and aftermarket chassis coming out that are more my preference.
I still won’t spend an extra 35% for a laptop with swappable hardware, not when I can sell the whole thing into the used market for more than that 35% difference and get a whole new kit every 5 years.
15% premium and a full customization market? That’s another question. Chicken and egg thing and I’m paying attention for my next actual replacement system.
It’s one of the main reasons I got a clamp controller.
This reminds me of the plastics and fossil fuel industries telling consumers to recycle to fix the pollution problem.
Distributed computing for science research is like 0.01% of the wasted computing electricity while the idiocy of cryptocurrency where people literally waste electricity to create proof that their fiat imaginary coin has value to the suckers in their bigger fool scam.
Last I heard the world has a second UKs worth of burned fuel to make electricity for that ongoing scam.
I do some light nuisance games on my phone, but I absolutely can tell the difference between the 888 in my phone and a 865, let alone the thing in the fairphone.
Sure, I’m spoiled, but I am not willing to give up 120hz at 120fps in my apps and instant loading in the ui nor will I ever get anything but oled again.
If you’re asking for a 5+ year commitment to the device, which is kind of what this repairability thing does, you either have to be at the leading edge or have an upgrade path.
Fairphone has neither, they’re starting at 2 years behind but want me to pay as if they’re a modern midrange.
This is the part of “corporations are people” that somehow always proves the lie.
Put all of JP Morgan in jail. It can’t do any business at all until it serves the 90 days in jail for contempt of court since they failed to produce discovery and any of the SEC’s assertions that could have been based on this data, no matter how outlandish, are considered as facts to the jury going forward.
Try to get the c suite guys at a news Corp to admit reality is impossible tho.