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As someone who worked (briefly) as a freelance writer online, the tl;dr bot is my enemy and I want it dead. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can't afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there's a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc... so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I love the tl;dr; bot because it:

doesn’t pop up a ‘read our newsletter’ prompt that receives an auto-close click anyway
doesn’t pop up a separate prompt to subscribe to the news site using payment methods I simply don’t have because I’m not a credit card addicted American
doesn’t throw a consent form at me in yet another popup, in which I need to manually click away 308 vendors to which I do not want to sell my soul
doesn’t include useless Facebook-Like buttons that collect data about me even though I don’t even have a fucking Facebook account
doesn’t need 8 seconds of JavaScript execution to render fucking text
doesn’t load a 8000×6000px image that contains absolutely zero information, but only serves to make me to scroll by one screen to get to the information I actually want
relieves me of the burden to follow a link just to find that that content isn’t available ‘because you’ve already met your quota.
provides the information concisely instead of using a truck load of unnecessary fill words just to meet an arbitrary 4000 word minimum.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Don't forget the unclosable and stoppable auto playing video built into the page that you don't want from a text article!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Or the autoplay video that you CAN stop, but when you scroll down the page it moves to the corner and starts playing again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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