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Paying For Downloads Is Lame, And We Had No Idea Were Doing It

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13 pointskunle14 comments

TechCrunch seems to exist only to provide a never-ending stream of manufactured drama. Let's try and keep their drivel off HN ey?

Is there a Chrome extension to block TC and PD posts from HN?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd... filter techcrunch.com

Look perfect, thanks. Being an idiot and can't see where the filter is, though.

Just open HN with extension installed, filters link should appear in upper right corner - http://i.imgur.com/ukh9e.png

Perfect, thanks a lot.

on the front page, there's a 'x' next to articles, to filter against websites, and usernames

It's looking like they changed the link after you posted, changing "sorry" to "were-sorry".

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/were-sorry-mike-were-also-a...

Lame? Like paying for customers to use your service for 'free' for 30 days to try it out is lame, because you're paying for use? After all, quality services never have to do that.

It's only lame in a very particular echo chamber.

This must be crazy - CEO, COO, Director of Product for a fucking Wordpress blog? are you kidding me?? Techcrunch at the end of the day is a Wordpress blog. It could be justified atleast if they were covering international news, but they are focused mostly on Start-up stuff (that too only the big guys) and mos, if not just Apple.

>Because straight up paying for downloads, or traffic, to a blog is insidious

Yeah right, biased, manipulative, colored, Apple-sponsored journalism isn't insidious, but paying for traffic is. Stop acting so surprised TC.

The technology is irrelevant. It's what you do with it that matters.

>Techcrunch at the end of the day is a Wordpress blog.

Yes, you know, like Whitehouse.gov is just a Wordpress blog at the end of the day. What do they need a president and a country for?

The thing is, the blogging technology doesn't matter. And the fact that it's a blog doesn't matter much either -- as blogs can make from $0 to hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

>Yeah right, biased, manipulative, colored, Apple-sponsored journalism isn't insidious, but paying for traffic is.

Never like TC, but ..."Apple-sponsored"? TC? Of all tech outlets out there?

(That said, I doubt even one blog or news site is indeed "Apple-sponsored", including Daring Fireball. And if the US had proper anti-defamation laws, people would have found that out in a painful way).

Whitehouse.gov runs on Drupal, not Wordpress.

The argument remains though...

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