Rtings.com Reviews are now Pay2View, thanks to AI

Title: Revamping Our Membership Program (12 points, 10 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231136

“ While much of RTINGS.com remains free, our full test results and in-depth product analysis are now available only to members.”

“ RTINGS.com has historically relied heavily on organic search traffic from Google and affiliate links. That model is becoming less reliable. Fewer people click through from Google organic results than they used to. At the same time, AI actively scrapes and reuses our test results, often without attribution and without the context needed to interpret them correctly.”