• ZeroCool@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    Not reading articles and just commenting on the headline. It’s extremely disappointing that habit carried over from reddit.

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      8 months ago

      As someone who tries to read the articles a lot of them actually suck. They barely contain more info than the headline and hit you with an annoying pop-up or paywall.

      I would not ever recommend reading any gaming related news article.

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        8 months ago

        Highly recommend Firefox with uBlock origin, and there’s an addon called bypass paywalls clean which does exactly what it says.

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      8 months ago

      I think it’s worse here b/c 90% of the articles I come across are paywalled, so I come to the comments to see if anyone posted the full text & I just see a bunch of comments about the headline.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t find that, but when I do you can often find the page on https://archive.today/ or https://web.archive.org/. You should be able to set it so that you can pass them a url from the address bar using your browser (e.g. Firefox’s quicksearches smart keywords) or search engine (Bangs on DDG, Kagi, searx), if it’s not already linked from the post text.