Comment on How Google is killing independent sites like ours
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 months agoConsumer Reports is still around and still excellent. I paid for a membership to them for quite some time and it was worth it.
I think it's an instance of the fundamental problem that if people generally want something (good reviews) for free, but it costs money to make, eventually it'll get hollowed out and replaced with something empty and worthless, because there wasn't money in continuing to provide it for free.
dangerous50@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Thanks. Totally forgot about them.
Very good point. And with this ads/google revenue model, it’s SEO skills that makes money instead of good skill to write a meaningful review.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 months ago
Yeah. Meaningful reviews actually really interfere with your ability to make money, because your advertisers won't be super happy if the ad they paid money for saying "It tastes great!" is right next to the article explaining that actually it tastes like whale semen.