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These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments, and wonder why nobody wants to cli

These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments, and wonder why nobody wants to click into their site.

ronsor 7mo ago
But I love internet chum! Don't forget "new law thing"; that's an important category.
- wlesieutre 7mo ago
  If you live in California, insurance companies don't want you to know this
- sudoshred 7mo ago
  "internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl".
  - dredmorbius 7mo ago
    "Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015: "A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015) <https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/ https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>
    - functionmouse 7mo ago
      Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.
      - mikestew 7mo ago
        Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box.
        dredmorbius 7mo ago
        On Enterprise, configured by policy, no less, one would assume.
      - dredmorbius 7mo ago
        That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.
tencentshill 7mo ago
That's bottom of the barrel advertisers. You're being punished because you likely don't allow them to track you.
- zeta0134 7mo ago
  That the news sites allow bottom of the barrel advertisers on their site primarily reflects negatively on the news site, for not curating their partnerships. They decided to become a tabloid, and should lose an according amount of respect.
visarga 7mo ago
> These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments And that doesn't raise an eye brow, but well worded AI articles based on sources is described as slop

These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments, and wonder why nobody wants to click into their site.

ronsor 7mo ago

But I love internet chum! Don't forget "new law thing"; that's an important category.

wlesieutre 7mo ago
If you live in California, insurance companies don't want you to know this
sudoshred 7mo ago
"internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl".
- dredmorbius 7mo ago
  "Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015: "A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015) <https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/ https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>
  - functionmouse 7mo ago
    Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.
    - mikestew 7mo ago
      Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box.
      - dredmorbius 7mo ago
        On Enterprise, configured by policy, no less, one would assume.
    - dredmorbius 7mo ago
      That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.

tencentshill 7mo ago

That's bottom of the barrel advertisers. You're being punished because you likely don't allow them to track you.

zeta0134 7mo ago
That the news sites allow bottom of the barrel advertisers on their site primarily reflects negatively on the news site, for not curating their partnerships. They decided to become a tabloid, and should lose an according amount of respect.

visarga 7mo ago

> These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments And that doesn't raise an eye brow, but well worded AI articles based on sources is described as slop