The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can’t afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there’s a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc… so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

  • mommykink
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    329 months ago

    If these websites offered their articles in good faith I’d have no problem giving them a click, but the reality is that even just visiting these sites, users can get exposed to incredibly invasive trackers, data collectors, and an uncomfortable amount of stimuli (which some people are very sensitive to). I do sympathize with the points you bring up, but people don’t prefer tl;dr bots for no reason.