I started to notice some thing weird while using Reddit, every link post from Condé Nast owned news outlet was getting a high amount of upvotes and awards while other publications had a very normal rate of awards( usually zero, with the exception of the sponsored ones) and upvotes.
That when I started to investigate this matter till I found out about this.
They are boosting their publications on Reddit on the major subreddits. They are trying to give their publications a advantage over all the other news outlets.
They have the ability to kill the other news outlets if they keep doing that. Avoid them as if your freedom is dependent on it.
Ethalis@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Ars Technica has always been very upfront about it whenever they cover news related to reddit. It’s certainly not ideal, but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Ars Technica is generally excellent in my experience, one of the better tech news websites.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Long live Beth Mole for health news!
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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.
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 1 day 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.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 day 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.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s great on politics too, they post things other outlets won’t.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 day ago
Don’t trust ars one inch as soon as they’re getting political. They’re highly manipulative.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 22 hours 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.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 day ago
This thread imply they are not a very good website for tech news.
frezik@midwest.social 1 day 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.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They have very blunt takes at the space launch industry, for one.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
…unfortunately they’re rife with oppressively disruptive advertising these days; just not worth reading anymore and my battery life agrees…
purrtastic@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
You’re online without ad blockers?