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News source selection

2024-12-17 18:02:56.282972+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Basis:

People increasingly use phones for their internetting rather than full-size computers.

News sites are so full of popups and other advertising dreck that they are frustrating to use, sometimes even impossible to use.

Thesis:

This has driven people to use lower-quality news sources— tweets, friends comments, etc —which has then made it easier for Trumpists and others to spew lies.

Sometimes I wish I had a little better visibility into what it is that browser tabs are chewing up CPU on, because it sure seems like the crypto mining in ads on sites like Wired is out of freakin' control.

[ related topics: Current Events Consumerism and advertising Cryptography ]

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