I just subscribed to Lifehacker a few days ago, and now I've unsubscribed. The articles are nothing but tech product-shilling, non-stop. Mostly Samsung and Apple.

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• housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lifehacker is just click bait shit now. Once upon a time in a far away land it was good.

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  • christophski@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lifehacker got me into everything tech 15 years ago. It is nothing like it used to be, it’s very sad.

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• Dekthro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It used to be pretty good, but that was over ten years ago now.

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  • username_unavailable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gosh, remember TechTV before the G4 merger? Between Call for Help & The Screensavers, I learned SO MUCH.

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    • MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      G4 🤯

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    • Obsession@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every time I drive by Laporte street in my neighborhood, I remember

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    • dewritochan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      i remember ZDtv before TechTV.

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    • Innocent_Bystander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He revived it on his own

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    • Dekthro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do! Me too man.

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• Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfortunately everything is an ad now. It’s the only way these sites are capable of surviving.

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  • mayo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I feel like I’m turning into ‘that guy’ again but cryptocurrency could help this out.

    a) connect wallet to lifehacker b) have fractions of a cent taken out to unlock articles

    I know people can bypass it/copy paste, but at the end of the day it would be another source of revenue. They are surviving as is, but barely.

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• BromSwolligans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anything that is, or once was affiliated with Gawker / GMG is, in its current state, a cringe-inducing, shambling husk of whatever it once was. My muscle memory still directs me to a number of those blogs and everyday I recoil at what has become of them.

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  • Maturin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    RIP AV Club

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  • orphiebaby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hmm, I wasn’t around for old Kotaku, but I think Kotaku still posts some good stuff? Or are they not Gawker?

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kotaku is close enough to gaming “journalism” that it’s never really been good.

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  • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like most of what Jalopnik has at least.

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• JTode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There was a time when Lifehacker was a place you could go for neat little things that could be accomplished with objects at hand to make life easier. There was such a time for many, many places on this great Internet of ours.

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  • chili1553@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was lit when it was Gina and crew.

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    • JTode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It really was, I have a clear recollection of it being one of my top sites for a good year or two. Then the bad times came.

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• Tsaot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I unsubscribed when they had an article about how rimming isn’t unsanitary and how to do it properly. I cannot describe how grossed out I was.

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  • icdmize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought you were kidding. What the hell kind of lifehack is this? lifehacker.com/how-to-eat-ass-1820805658

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    • Curmuffin@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean butts are great and all, but they tend to REDUCE my ability to get things done.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      medievalpoop.ytmnd.com

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  • BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I enjoy receiving but wouldn’t give personally. Nerve endings.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m a both absolutely yes. As long as the person is hygienic overall. Not like, just outta shower clean, fuck that. They just have to wipe properly.

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• ThirdNerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It did used to have great stuff. I first unsubbed years ago, and remain unsubbed until I forget what crap it became and resub - and then <DOH!> unsub again.

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  • orphiebaby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what happened to me too just now! xD

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• brock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That ship sailed a very long time ago.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This post reminded me of how much I miss the Consumerist website.

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  • skullone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh wow. Totally forgot about them. The internet is such a shit hole now. (Except for lemmy and tildes of course =P)

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  • orphiebaby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What was that? O:

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It was a public site associated with consumer reports. They occasionally released some product research in various areas, but mainly they wrote stories about shitty anti consumer practices that companies did. They also ran the worst company in America competition and sent the winner a golden poo trophy.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Like if the consumer protection bureau was a website.

      web.archive.org/web/…/consumerist.com/

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lifehacker has one good article a week. At the end of the week. It’s one where they debunk a bunch of bullshit rumors floating around the internet at the moment.

  So I check them once on Fridays.

  I’m guessing, with the way G/O media is going, that they’ll get rid of that.

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• wozomo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The only good Lifehacker articles are old Lifehacker articles.

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• Hello_there@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There was once a related website called tree hugger. All the articles were about things you could buy with an eco focus of some kind.
  It was neat to see stuff about solar powered radios, but pushing consumerism that much for that purpose misses the point

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• Nommer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to browse it about 15-20 years ago.It used to be a good place to learn tricks about all sorts of electronics. I’m not sure exactly what happened but it was like a switch flipped and they got awful almost overnight. Probably bought out.

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• pjhenry1216@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel like someone needs to setup a Netflix-type deal for news sites. I'm not going to pay a news site that I only view an article or two a month from. And there's a bunch of them. So it'd be neat if I can pay one price and access them when I need to.

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  • Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apple News+ is kind of like that

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But purposely excludes anyone who hasn’t invested $2000 in the apple ecosystem. Anything made by apple is a huge no from me, even if they decide occasionally to support hardware they didn’t already profit from directly.

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    • pjhenry1216@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apple does some things well but wraps it all in one of the worst systems designed for people. It's like a slaughterhouse that takes good care of its cattle.

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• UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The good old days of Lifehacker are long gone. What it is now is an insult to its memory.

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• Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  would people use a lifehacker community here?

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  • orphiebaby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it had actual life hacks, probably.

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    • Master@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lets make one but populate it with bots that only repost bs from the other one… (That’s my lemme experience in a nutshell)

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you hack out your butt you can poop out your front I hear

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• MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, it was a pretty cool website like 20 years ago.

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• NYPariah@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck Lifehacker.

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• kratoz29@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any alternatives you recommend?

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  • orphiebaby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Heck if I know them. Anyone else? ^^

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