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by hmcamp 914 days ago
The irony that this page is covered in ads and clickbait content is hilarious
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Essentially the main problem is that a lot of people want to try (even if they mostly fail) to monetize everything--and I assume a lot of people here aren't innocent of that.
Sounds like the real problem is that the consumer is not very good at communicating their wants, leaving people to guess at what they might be interested in.
> As the web declines, we pause to talk about the death of criticism and what happens when someone rips off your work.

So if I paste the transcript here on HN, would that prove their point? As currently, I'm not in a position to listen to an hour-long podcast?

Let's be fair, I'm never in a position to listen to an hour long podcast about a news topic that could likely be covered in a handful of paragraphs.
And I'm almost certainly not going to read an unedited transcript of an hour-long interview. Interviews are good but they take a fair bit of editing to be really readable in print.
With my browser full-screened and set at 133% zoom for the sake of my eyes, literally 100% of the screen real estate is either ad content (the largest section of which appears to be trying to load a broken image or video, so it's just a huge black rectangle with a tiny missing-image icon in the center) or the navbar, header banner and section header. I can't see any of the actual article without scrolling down.