Comment on A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 5 months agobut my issue with requiring an email is that i don’t want to receive emails from them for any reason ever
Comment on A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 5 months agobut my issue with requiring an email is that i don’t want to receive emails from them for any reason ever
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m not sure I understand your problem here. Mailing lists can always be unsubscribed from and they wouldn’t have your real email on file. Just use the alias to sign into the website and read there. Unless you’re saying you want everything for free without giving anything in return?
millie@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Do we want free articles on the internet? Like we’ve had for the past 30 years until some publications decided in the last 5 years to start paywalling everything?
Yes. Yes I do want free articles on the internet. And once upon a time, publishers actually wanted my eyeballs on their free articles.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Once upon a time, social media didn’t exist. Once upon a time, people bought newspapers. Many things have changed over the decades that led to the media industry adopting paywalls and a subscription-based business model. 404 Media is unusual in that it continues to provide free articles to those who subscribe to its email newsletter, which I think is a fair trade.
millie@beehaw.org 5 months ago
That’s not unusual at all. What’s unusual is for a small publisher like 404 to demand an email address before letting you view their articles. Personally, it means I don’t read them.