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@caseyjohnston.bsky.social

the receipts here are completely thrilling to me, as a connoisseur of actual product research (Wirecutter alum), but also it's very sad what's happening to sites that cuts through the bullshit online, and that Google has no handle on things at all housefresh.com/david-vs-dig...

housefresh.comHow Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFreshAnd why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.

21/2/24, 11:28 pm175 reposts417 likes

Alexander The Meh

@alexanderthemeh.bsky.social

22 Feb 2024

Matches perfectly with my lived experience of reviews getting noticeably and massively shittier over the past few years

John Kelly

@johnkelly.bsky.social

22 Feb 2024

Bought a pair of gardening gloves from a site that, in retrospect, was probably just this nonsense. Affiliate link to what actually are a nice pair of gloves. Months later Amazon refunded the full price because they were counterfeits. It’s so hard to know who to trust for a lot of reasons. Ugh.

Casey Johnston

@caseyjohnston.bsky.social

21 Feb 2024

you thought reddit was safe, well, bad news:

Casey Johnston

@caseyjohnston.bsky.social

21 Feb 2024

(but also like lmao this is your AI god, who couldn't tell that this wasn't produced by either a chatbot or some lowly paid remote contractor, which are of course the same thing)

Casey Johnston

@caseyjohnston.bsky.social

21 Feb 2024

extremely interesting though that reddit spam exploits very badly reddit's policy of leaving up content from deleted accounts

Casey Johnston

@caseyjohnston.bsky.social

21 Feb 2024

search is dead, news outlets are dead, from their ashes will rise the blogs