Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads. Our website, in which real humans do journalism, is not indexed by Google News
https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/
Periodic reminder to please directly subscribe to quality news sources to help fund good journalism. Especially local newspapers which have been really struggling. They are often the only ones holding your local elected officials accountable or reporting on them to any degree.
I reserve the right to complain about it being behind a paywall when it’s from, say, the Washington Post. Basically a pet project of Jeff Bezos in the same way Hearst properties used to be. They say what he wants… I’m pretty sure he can afford to pay the remaining good journalists without relying on further funding.
For pretty much everybody else, I’m on board. I wish I was easier way to spend money, preferably without giving every single news organization my personal and banking info.
Periodic reminder to please directly subscribe to quality news sources to help fund good journalism. Especially local newspapers which have been really struggling. They are often the only ones holding your local elected officials accountable or reporting on them to any degree.
…and stop complaining about iT’s bEhInD a PaYwaLL
There’s a good reason for that and it’s easy to learn how to bypass 99% of them
I reserve the right to complain about it being behind a paywall when it’s from, say, the Washington Post. Basically a pet project of Jeff Bezos in the same way Hearst properties used to be. They say what he wants… I’m pretty sure he can afford to pay the remaining good journalists without relying on further funding.
For pretty much everybody else, I’m on board. I wish I was easier way to spend money, preferably without giving every single news organization my personal and banking info.
Nope, can’t complain about Washington Post being behind a paywall cos you shouldn’t be giving them clicks anyway
Overruled 😂