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submitted 11 months ago by executive_chicken to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

modern websites are a pain to navigate with popups, paywall, ads, heavy tracking that slows down navigation, autoplaying video ads etc
modern journalism = let's just report whatever the person or company says without fact checking, contextualizing or taking a stance. I believe this is done because it takes less effort and because it makes sure that the news org doesn't anger any of the persons/organizations it has tides with (for ads or direct funding)

The comments solve both problems, as lemmy is ad- and tracking-free and the people in the comments are mostly real people usually without any vested interests in the things they're discussing.

So OBVIOUSLY I only read the comments. I'll get the content of the article indirectly as it's being discussed.

[–] drawerair 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I see a lot of 💩 on the site, I use Firefox's reader mode.

archive.md, 12ft.io or the "Bypass paywalls clean" extension for paywalls

I have Ublock origin to block the tracking.

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