More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.

Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads::More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites —and the problem is growing fast.

  • @CustodialTeapotEnglish
    29•1 year ago

    The internet has been dying and changing for the worst for a long time.

    Websites trying to be a one stop all on one site that keeps you there are 90% of web traffic these days.

    Having multiple bookmarks for multiple sites for individual reasons are the small user basis.

    Sites like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, tik tok and YouTube etc are the majority of web useage. Gone are the days of forums for bespoke interests.

    Discord as a closed ecosystem with none threaded or web searchable topics.

    Ad ladden shit hole news sites. Click bait shite etc are the norm.

    Gone are the days of enjoyabls fun to explore web surfing.

    • El BartoEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      Gone are the days of forums for bespoke interests.

      What about Lemmy?

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      I feel Lemmy is the new … eh forums golden age or something. Anyone will quickly be able to fire up an instance, I mean anyone can fire up a community today already!

      We have been spoonfed dopamine triggers since Facebook came around, before that you’d be on the internet because you actively wanted something. I hope that’s coming back.

      Grr /old rant off :-)