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[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 89 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Oh look, another Tom's guide advertorial masking as original content...

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I also suspect ArsTechnica of running sponsored AI stories these days.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They're all doing it. Most tech these days just isn't exciting enough to attract attention without them hyping it.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I would quite honestly be surprised, they have been vocal in the past about having no such thing.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago

Before the sale when Igor still wrote for them, Tom's was pretty well respected as was Anand.