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These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments, and wonder why nobody wants to click into their site.

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But I love internet chum! Don't forget "new law thing"; that's an important category.

If you live in California, insurance companies don't want you to know this

"internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl".

"Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015:

"A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015)

<https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>

Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.

Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box.

On Enterprise, configured by policy, no less, one would assume.

That is an absolute stone cold dead soul-sucking statement.

That's bottom of the barrel advertisers. You're being punished because you likely don't allow them to track you.

That the news sites allow bottom of the barrel advertisers on their site primarily reflects negatively on the news site, for not curating their partnerships. They decided to become a tabloid, and should lose an according amount of respect.

> These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments

And that doesn't raise an eye brow, but well worded AI articles based on sources is described as slop

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