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by joegahona 340 days ago
“Yet as Google does the Googling, humans no longer visit the websites from which the information is gleaned. ”

Can you blame them? These publishers’ content is buried under paywalls, logins, screen-engulfing ads, deceptive headlines, the list goes on forever. Publishers created such user-hostile experiences that people are desperate for a user interface that’s barely there and gives them what they want, and will gladly pay $20 per month for it.