Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible.

Ethalis@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, the conde owner bit isn’t news to anyone, just cause this one guy never looked. Are is fine and it will be as long as the current people are there. Until it gets looted and the staff laid off it is fine. Eric Berger navigates a bit of a tightrope because he has high level access to Musk but can’t be too direct about asking anything other than rockets, even though the political part is affecting the space part a lot right now. I do expect that just like Polygon it will eventually be gutted but nothing lasts forever.

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• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news

  This thread imply they are not a very good website for tech news.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news. The tech press (them and Wired) have been some of the best at covering the second Trump Admin. Possibly because it’s crawling in tech bros, and the tech press already knows how to deal with them.

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    • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news.

      This thread imply they are not a very good website for tech news and neither political.

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And the thread is wrong about one of those. I rarely touch them for tech news.

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• myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • purrtastic@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re online without ad blockers?

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    • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Did you know you can install adblockers on phone browsers? Because you can, and you should

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They have very blunt takes at the space launch industry, for one.

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• KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup, as long as the current staff (by and large) are still at the helm of the Ars orbiting HQ, I’ll continue to go there. I’ve lost too many other good tech news sites in the last decade, I can’t lose another one.

  The rest of Conde Nast is hot garbage.

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  • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ars technica is full of shit, too, as soon they’re even slightly off the tech trail. Even while on the tech trail they’re massively untrustworthy as soon as their owners’ interests are involved. I’ve kicked them out of my RSS reader long ago. If they really got something exciting I’ll get to know via slashdot, mastodon or feddit. Still I’m suspicious as I at least one time caught them intentionally spreading false information.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you link the false info they spread so others can see it?

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      • bedbeard@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’d also like to see this damning evidence (that I am sceptical will ever be shared)

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      bahh they are hit and miss sure but also it’s entertaining enough and some of the people getting their star come from the meh work

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s great on politics too, they post things other outlets won’t.

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  • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t trust ars one inch as soon as they’re getting political. They’re highly manipulative.

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bro, shut up, you’re trying to manipulate people right now, shut the fuck up

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• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ars Technica is generally excellent in my experience, one of the better tech news websites.

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  • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what are some other good ones?

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TechDirt for stuff that has more to do with the legal side, rather than technical news

      TheRegister for general computer news with a dash of bri’ish sarcasm

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  • NeryK@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed. As long as their corporate overlords do not fuck up Ars, there is no reason to avoid them.

    If (when ?) it becomes an AI slop-filled shell of its former self, then it will be past time to go elsewhere.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Long live Beth Mole for health news!

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    • Mossheart@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And punny titles!

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    • sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      She’s awesome. I love Eric Berger’s contributions too.

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      • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Eric Berger is an elon-boi tho

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