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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ajsnigrutin ◴[02 Sep 25 14:57 UTC] No.45103952[source]▶
Webdevs, why, why o why, do you have to ask me to subscribe to the newsletter before you even let me read the first 5% of the article? Do you really thing people read the first sentence and then go "yes, i definitely want to receive spam from this website! here's my email address!" or what?
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1123581321 ◴[02 Sep 25 15:06 UTC] No.45104062[source]▶
404 does it because they don’t like AI scraping. https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre...
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1. euazOn ◴[02 Sep 25 15:22 UTC] No.45104250[source]▶
I call BS on that. I can get the entire text of the article by just viewing the source, no email address needed. Even if it was somehow needed, it's trivial for a scraper to circumvent that.
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2. 1123581321 ◴[03 Sep 25 05:49 UTC] No.45112595[source]▶
I believe the sentiment they published at that link but it doesn't seem like the right method technically, and it conflates "AI is stealing from us" and "we need financial support," the latter of which has been true for independent journalism much longer than LLMs have trained on the web.