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Comment by ares623 | Hacker News Reader

I saw about a dozen ads, and not a single photo of the trees and the bloom. Bravo.

It seems to be blogspam from the Spain-based Actualidad Blog network.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/actualidad-blog

IA has a capture of the site[0]; the first and only photo in the archived version of TFA appears to be a cropped version of one sourced to AP ([1] photo 2 in the carousel), and it is entirely uncredited in TFA.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20251214073005/https://en.jardin...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-talipot-palm-flamengo-...

Other reporting I dug up reference the AP and also Reuters as sources for the story.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/once-in-a-lifet...

Ironically the UX on Reuters and AP wasn’t hugely worse than the blogspam: * the text of the blogspam is pretty faithful to the AP article * Reuters had a fullscreen paywall * the AP had a floating video ad and an interstitial you have to click to get below the fold

I don't know if "blogspam" is fair. This article seems to contain a significant amount of original content that is not lifted/rewritten from elsewhere. The photos do seem to be taken from the AP article without acknowledgement, which is not ideal, but I guess that's for them to worry about.

Overall I think it's an interesting enough topic to warrant HN front page placement, and this is the most extensive article about it. We'd be happy to switch to a different source if someone can recommend a better one.

IMO the article reads like it was written by a high schooler trying to reach a page count. It has original content, but it rehashes the same points many times, is short on actual substance, and doesn't have a clear point.

I think it may be language thing but sure, we've switched it to the AP story.

While poking around on other pages from the same .en subdomain of TFA on archive.org, I found error pages from GTranslate (Google Translate?) which could explain the weird formatting and language issues.

I don't mean to disparage the site by calling it blogspam, but I do take your point. Thanks for your efforts and for your gentle nudging; I will seek to be more expressive and less judgemental.

Odd. I run noscript, so no javascript was running. I use ublock as well. I saw a number of photos. What's your setup?

On the other hand, the random bold lines makes it seem AI generated. Dunno.

was also confused why the site had exactly 0 images of anything. (i use dns ad blocking)

anyhoos: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tguSVmcMux8

Invest in an ad blocker.

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