While I haven’t seen the DDOS attack in their code for a while now, once you have done something like this (tampering with captures) the trust is just gone.
Assuming the commenter created the archive (probably not) they should’ve used a better service. Maybe Ghostarchive.
Didn’t know about this! Thanks for the info. I didn’t create the archive, just went there and saw that someone else already had. But I’ll check out Ghostarchive for future links.
“Our continued existence as a publication relies on people being able to freely access information, and there’s a burgeoning movement to actually make people aware of something they’ve been too arsed to bother with for decades. Wrote an artic-”
It’s not perfect, no, but what are they supposed to do to keep the lights on? Double down on ads giving everyone malware, that everyone should be blocking anyway?
…That being said, we have every right to try and bypass the paywall too, heh.
They should be a little bit discerning about what they paywall. It won’t kill them make public interest stories of serious value free as a public service.
…Those “14 year olds” make money with ads, if not by being straight-up product shills. And social media takes most of the cut.
Also, that’s quite different than sustaining a whole journalism business. There is of course social media centric journalism, and Wired does plenty of that too.
Social media isn’t a sustainable model. Yes, there are people that have success in that model, but those people have to sacrifice a lot, especially in the content quality, to acheive that success. Many media companies have already tried it, but the content they produce ends up dissolving into mostly clickbait, because they would fail otherwise.
Non-paywall link.
Fuck whoever downvoted you. You’re doing great bro. Keep it up.
While I haven’t seen the DDOS attack in their code for a while now, once you have done something like this (tampering with captures) the trust is just gone.
Assuming the commenter created the archive (probably not) they should’ve used a better service. Maybe Ghostarchive.
Didn’t know about this! Thanks for the info. I didn’t create the archive, just went there and saw that someone else already had. But I’ll check out Ghostarchive for future links.
Fucking corporate bootlickers I tell ya hwut.
the boy ain’t right
Thank you.
“Our continued existence as a publication relies on people being able to freely access information, and there’s a burgeoning movement to actually make people aware of something they’ve been too arsed to bother with for decades. Wrote an artic-”
“Paywall it.”
“On it, boss.”
It’s not perfect, no, but what are they supposed to do to keep the lights on? Double down on ads giving everyone malware, that everyone should be blocking anyway?
…That being said, we have every right to try and bypass the paywall too, heh.
They should be a little bit discerning about what they paywall. It won’t kill them make public interest stories of serious value free as a public service.
This is true.
Some sites do this already. Wired may do it; not sure, though you are right in that advocacy posts should make the cut.
maybe they should take a class from the 14 yr old influencers keeping the lights on with socials, follows and clicks.
…Those “14 year olds” make money with ads, if not by being straight-up product shills. And social media takes most of the cut.
Also, that’s quite different than sustaining a whole journalism business. There is of course social media centric journalism, and Wired does plenty of that too.
Via sponsor spots and ad revenue?
Social media isn’t a sustainable model. Yes, there are people that have success in that model, but those people have to sacrifice a lot, especially in the content quality, to acheive that success. Many media companies have already tried it, but the content they produce ends up dissolving into mostly clickbait, because they would fail otherwise.