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Tech news doesn't understand ad blockers or Chrome extensions
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The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, coined by Michael Crichton:
Be that as it may, the more relevant effect to this article is the Dunning-Kreuger one. The author seems to have no idea that his dismissal of the limitations of manifest v3 means he is dismissing that this absolutely constrains what ad blockers can do, and very significantly. And his confident tone only adds to the discord he believes he is correcting.
That's true, however note that credibility comes attached to personal identity, as the text mentions in the last paragraph. A newspaper isn't a person, articles are written by different journalists- however when a media shows a majority of bogus articles they quickly lose credibility too
Interesting theory. A fancy way of saying the press aren’t super sleuths or credible reporters with all the facts.
I’ve been involved in about 4 incidences that made the news. None of them. 0/4 were remotely accurate outside of the total sum of the event (there was a car crash involving two vehicles). The broad strokes are there but that’s about it.
But then the news is a money making enterprise that has no real incentive to report the news impartially or even accurately. It kinda cuts into their profits (real reporting takes time, money, resources).
The take home is the shit you see on the news is essentially “based on a true story”, nothing more.
There still is plenty of proper investigative journalism, but you can’t pay a team of half a dozen experts who take six to nine months per story off the ad revenue of some website, and few people want to pay for a outlet that might publish two or three articles once a year when you could get a paper just full to the brim with dozens of current articles every hour.