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Post by coin » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #186

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For me personally the most infuriating example of this is the Azure Updates[1] page, which in my job I need to check nearly daily to see what's reaching EoL, what's new, etc... A couple of years ago they redeveloped it as a SPA app. The original server-rendered version of it worked just fine , but it "had" to be made into an interactive client-side monstrosity that loads many times slower for "reasons". It doesn't ev…

GitHub also got infected with this horrible "JS SPA" disease shortly after MS bought them. Now you can't even browse files or view issues without it. If they can't get it right, who can!? Berkshire Hathaway, apparently: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ Pure content, not fluff, and even has a small but unobtrusive ad.

Post by neya » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:31 AM UTC

pibaker wrote: post #345

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It is an interesting view point. The core issue is journalists have just become middle-men in a free information era and demanding money for it. Like I said, what's to stop me (or someone) to simply write a crawler/agent that just gathers data on a bunch of sites where information is curated (like X, HN, Reddit) and presenting it to me in a readable format? I think people see this and hence the reluctance to pay. The…

> a free information era Not all information is out there for free, monetarily and in terms of personal liberty. News articles frequently quote "sources inside" some three letter agencies or major corporations who will face consequences if they speak to the public under their real names, and will be rightfully dismissed if spoken anonymously without a journalist being able to ascertain their identity . There is also…

Post by int_19h » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 8:10 AM UTC

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It does indeed work pretty well today, but they have already developed ways to circumvent it. For example, serving ads from the same domain as the main page.

AFAIK, YouTube has been doing that for years and uBlock has consistently adapted. It's also easier for Google to do that since it owns the ad network and doesn't need to verify ad prints are legitimate and not inflated by the third party that displays them.

Post by hilbert42 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:11 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #356

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"…but no one at the NYT is losing any sleep over people like us." Likely not, but they are over their lost revenues. The profitability of newspapers and magazines has been slashed to ribbons over the past couple of decades and internet revenues hardly nudge the graphs. Internet beneficiaries are all new players, Google et al.

Likely not, but they are over their lost revenues. NYT's revenue and subscription base are both increasing quite well. Ad revenue was up 20%, and profit was up 26% in Q4. Revenue was over $700,000,000. 12,300,000 people pay for the New York Times.

Post by hilbert42 » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC

int_19h wrote: post #250

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It doesn't have to be that way, you can only push people so far before they riot. History has thousands of instances and many have been very ugly, 1789 and 1917 for instance.

People riot when they can't make ends meet, not when they can't install an app on their phone. Rioting is very costly.