On August 4, 2014, Topolsky (co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge) stepped down from The Verge and Vox Media to join Bloomberg "as the editor of a series of new online ventures it is introducing as part of a revamped journalism strategy". He left Bloomberg in July 2015 after clashes with Michael Bloomberg over the direction of its digital media strategy and started the digital news company The Outline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Topolsky

Thank you for the link. From the Wikipedia article on Outline:

“In March 27, 2019, it was announced that Bryan Goldberg and his company Bustle Digital Media had bought The Outline” [1].

So a VC-backed site got acquired by a publisher whose customers are advertisers. Meanwhile, Bloomberg’s “nag wall” is neutered with incognito mode. Outline remains, to me, to be a terrible trade-off.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18284591/bustle-outline-bryan-...

Why use Internet Archive bandwidth when an alternative is there?

> Why use Internet Archive bandwidth when an alternative is there?

Outline looks sketchy. Its privacy policy allows for disclosure to analytics companies "or when Outline believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Outline, third parties or the public at large" [1]. (TL; DR Whenever, too whomever.) It explicitly considers business transfers, implying for-profit motives.

We don't know where it's incorporated. We don't know what kind of entity it is, nor to whom its beholden. We don't even know who is in charge nor how they're incentivized.

The Archives is run by honest people. If you don't like using their resources without compensation, donate to them. (Or, better yet, pay for the journalism you value.)

Outline is a lousy attempt at infringement for unknown gain by unknown people, a passable MITM.

[1] https://www.outline.com/privacy.html

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