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Comment by Kukumber | Hacker News Reader

They are not reviews, they are literally ads disguised as reviews

They probably have signed some juicy sponsorships with the Intel PCs and none from Apple

Their links says it all

To me personally, it's clear that Apple made every Intel/AMD laptop companies out of business, they are stuck since 2 decades ago

Apple with ARM and specialy their care with performance/watt and focus on energy efficiency changed the game

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Flag it. Flag every submarine ad on Hacker News. It'd be a boon for the site if it treated every positive article from companies with marketing budgets as astroturfing until proven otherwise. Same goes for political articles. And anyone caught at any time trying to game the system. Just blanket deleted for a set period of time. Offend again? Longer time. Third time? You're done. Forever.

The main page would only be cool projects and interesting tech news, instead of flame wars by confused people who think Apple and the rest of FAANG are a football teams. There's literally no downside.

I can't flag and i can't downvote, so i just comment

And i don't think flagging is the answer, leaving a comment to educate the readers is better than trying to censor things

Comments pointing it out are good. I'm replying to you though because this is the first time I've ever heard anyone say that not wanting to look at marketing/PR/astroturfing is censorship. Lots of people disagree about what is or isn't that stuff, but never that blocking it would be censorship. Interesting take, thanks for your contribution.

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