End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell

Re:End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell by layer8 on Friday August 30, 2024 @09:51AM (#41400713)

For worse.

The main reason for tech journalism being more sustainable on YouTube is non-skippable ads and the recommendation algorithm.

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Re:End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell by keiferski on Friday August 30, 2024 @09:52AM (#41400725)

I'm more optimistic. Video may be clunky and largely difficult to search within now, but in the near future, with AI transcription and some kind of new UI, will become as easy to access as text is today.

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Re:End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell by jeffbee on Friday August 30, 2024 @10:15AM (#41400957)

Unlike a random blog, I can pay YouTube to remove all the ads. I watch GN videos, and they get paid, but I never see ads other than GN's sponsor message and merch which are trivial to skip.

Compare AnandTech which has always been a user-hostile visual insult. The whole article is covered in ads. You can barely find the words. The articles are needlessly split over 25 pages so you click and load over and over. They really pioneered a lot of bad patterns.

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Re:End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell by layer8 on Friday August 30, 2024 @10:33AM (#41401148)

> I can pay YouTube to remove all the ads

Yes, and I do that myself, but most people don’t, and the overall model wouldn’t work without the ads.

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