cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21152300
- YouTube video (first 7 minutes): https://youtu.be/rIR3PpQ82yE
- SkipVids (same video, but without ad): https://skipvids.com/?v=rIR3PpQ82yE
- New site: https://www.thisweekinvideogames.com/ (at the time of the posting the website opens extremely slow, they might get hit with lot of visitors)
The first 7 minutes segment explains it. Its kinda self advertisement, but I think this is important. One of my favorite Gaming YouTube channels “Skill Up” launched a new website for gaming articles. The goal is to have articles without Ai, no advertisements, no sponsored articles, no CEO optimized content, to maintain a high quality content. I think this is really really important and a good step.
Not a fan of skillup at all but this is good. Hope it picks up traction.
May I ask what it is you dont like about them? Saying them as there are more than just one person behind this channel now, not sure if u refer to that or just the main person.
Wow this is great, skillup has been my main source of gaming news for the last couple of years. He and his team does some great work and cover important topics like layoff and point out how nasty some of these publishers are. Love their coverage so this is an easy sell for me!
no rss feed though as far as I can find I found thisweekinvideogames.com/feed by trying random urls and that is a valid url that is accepted by an rss reader and has a name and description but no articles on it even though there’s 10 articles on the site
Strange, he mentioned RSS in hos video so I would assume it should be there. Couldn’t find it either though so it will probably be around soon. Website literally just launched so.
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Me: scrolling looks good!
Website: This section is available to paid supporters only.
Me: …
How else do you expect them to pay for something that’s not driven by ads or selling the day-to-day to AI?
I don’t blame them, I also think the pay wall stops AI from stealing everything as well. I just wish they had a $5 tier. It seemed to be one of the big comments on the video, and I agree with it. Sure its less, but I would imagine the extra people gained from that tier would certainly help since its lost money at the moment.
As someone who works for a paywallled website, that’s hardly a deterrent. If the site is important enough, they will pay for accounts and crawl until the server melts
Is there any true way to block it? Does the crawler literally use the same access (443) as us to scrape content? If so, the only other thing I can think of is to block all known IP’s that AI crap originates from, but that sounds daunting and impossible to catch everything.
That’s in the home page yeah, it’s makde kind of weirdly yea, with a sorft of fake “pop-up”. But you can still access the News and Features without limitations I think… ?
Its viewer funded yes. As described in the video parts of the website will be locked for paid supporters. Imo a solid thing to support these days of AI piss everywhere.
