My original, editorialized title: Ars Technica Sells Out


Linking to this because I know people here read Ars Technica, and I totally didn’t become a subscriber three days before this was announced. Nope. No sir.

  • fmstratA
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    222 days ago

    I bet MFCBot would work super well if it was updated to report on if the publication’s owners had a vested interest in the topic.

    • @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      120 days ago

      Oh it would. It would require the MFC site itself to actually collect and collate data on site’s parent company investment portfolios and that’s a pretty massive ask from what sounds like a very tiny team.

        • @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          118 days ago

          It might be able to? Ground has a browser extension that likely indicates they have some kind of external API access, it probably could be integrated with a little bit of effort.