[Video] In 2024 It's Getting Even Harder to Find News (Including Reports About GNU/Linux), SPAM Sites Pollute the Web
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News or Spam About Linux?
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THIS may sound like a "broken record" (as we've been saying it almost every month for a number of years), but it is still relevant as the matter is getting more severe. Fewer sites are still active, some of the new sites are basically spam and spew (e.g. bnnbreaking*), and despite claims that RSS feeds and blogs are making a comeback/resurgence, we're not quite seeing it unless we subscribe to a lot more of the existing (surviving) ones.
Meanwhile, once-established sites such as Linux.com are telling you to go read Microsoft Larabel (by "Linux.com Editorial Staff"), who is literally promoting Microsoft this week. After weeks of publishing nothing at all - and it's not even clean if the site has an editor anymore - the "Linux.com Editorial Staff" also says you should go check out the marketing spam in the proprietary site of the Linux Foundation. This is absolutely worthless. Only half a decade ago the site produced several original and detailed articles per day. Then the Linux Foundation decided to fire all the staff and editors, without as much as a prior warning.
The above video also mentions this "Sponsored" new 'article' wherein a site that focuses on Linux simply PROMOTES Microsoft WINDOWS PCs. Why? Because it is sponsored, i.e. it is paid-for SPAM.
We continue to try hard to find relevant news, especially for the sister site, but weeding out the SPAM is an increasingly time-consuming job. █
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* It seems more clear than ever that "bnnbreaking" is a SPAM site composed by a bot, not a person. And they barely even supervise this bot. We had suspicions already, but it is now confirmed owing to this bizarre 'article' about a distro from 2020. It's not the only such site. Google's indexes are getting polluted by these.