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Re:Costco co-founder to CEO: “If you raise the effing hot do... by jtsiskin on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:43PM (#26562963)
My god, click the privacy button on that site if you want to be horrified.

What even is the linked article? The vast majority is just directly quoting a different article. The one part which isn’t just a direct quote which looks possibly like it’s own “reporting”, the one sentence at the start, is actually just directly lifted from the quoted article as well, absolutely nothing is added.

Then the quoted article has so many random words highlighted linking to either tenuously related articles or the same content just rehashed slightly differently.

Is this what the web is now? Content farms ripping content farms all competing to send your precise location and browsing history to as many partners as they can? How many lifetime-hours are spent on this? Depressing...

Re:Costco co-founder to CEO: “If you raise the effing hot do... by helloworld11 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:39AM (#26564202)
Just completely stop visiting toxic dumpster fire websites like boingboing and its ilk for any reason whatsoever, and problem solved on a personal level. They'll still be there screwing other readers, but you can at least know you dodged revolting nonsense. The web still has good content from sites that are at least semi-reasonable about creating their own value without desperately tracking everything you do.
Re:Costco co-founder to CEO: “If you raise the effing hot do... by someonehere on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:27PM (#26563241)
This is why I pulled BoingBoing from my RSS feed. They were regurgitating other news article like Buzzfeed and Mashable. They used to have good original content but I don’t know what changed.
Re:Costco co-founder to CEO: “If you raise the effing hot do... by joehenriod on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:42AM (#26567049)
Are you asking how many hours are wasted creating this or by digesting this?

Because I can assure you that very little is actually spent on the creation side, which is kind of the point.