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		dorkwood on May 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes th... The fact that news websites happily adopted those is disgusting. They're literally tricking people into thinking it's news content.

icedistilled on May 17, 2020 [–]

And they also, for the longest time, strongly turned me off paying for any news sites. The more they use scummy ads that turn people off, the more they need ad revenue.

That's a nice negative feedback loop or catch-22

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