TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.
    • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
      15·
      6 months ago

      that’s been my experience too, and i love high quality journalism, but i really don’t need more online accounts with my email address tied to them

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        9·
        6 months ago

        Plus I don’t want to be tracked what I read and click. But maybe this is a way to fight AI bots from training? Also in future high quality journalism will become more important than ever.

          • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            but my issue with requiring an email is that i don’t want to receive emails from them for any reason ever

              • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                Do we want free articles on the internet? Like we’ve had for the past 30 years until some publications decided in the last 5 years to start paywalling everything?

                Yes. Yes I do want free articles on the internet. And once upon a time, publishers actually wanted my eyeballs on their free articles.

                  • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
                    2·
                    6 months ago

                    That’s not unusual at all. What’s unusual is for a small publisher like 404 to demand an email address before letting you view their articles. Personally, it means I don’t read them.