I spent a few minutes trying to find a link to her actual youtube page (which is presumably banned) but gave up trying to find any kind of link in a news article.
Is there any room for a news organization that doesn't do this "keep the user on our website as long as possible" game? The financial pressure must be immense. I wish it was true that they weren't doing themselves any favors by making users hate them, but in the era of people thinking facebook = internet, this is behavior is sadly on par.
Amusingly, googling "Baldur's Gate 3 Jaheira Actor youtube" doesn't even give the youtube link. It just gives this HN submission, a few down on the list, which is now asking for what her original youtube link was.
> Is there any room for a news organization that doesn't do this "keep the user on our website as long as possible" game?
Depends on what "any room" means. A website like that can certainly exist and potentially even be profitable, but there's always a ton of pressure to not do it. Even if you're profitable now, playing that game will make you even more money. "The meta" here is to spend the smallest amount of effort to produce the most content that's just interesting enough to keep someone reading it, and extract the most viewing time from that little content.
Judging by what the companies are adopting nowadays, it seems that they figured out that being reputable just isn't profitable enough.
> As reported by TheGamer, On December 5, ...
so I click "TheGamer", and it turns out to be the same website with a slightly different logo. https://www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-jaheira-actor-tracy-...
I spent a few minutes trying to find a link to her actual youtube page (which is presumably banned) but gave up trying to find any kind of link in a news article.
Is there any room for a news organization that doesn't do this "keep the user on our website as long as possible" game? The financial pressure must be immense. I wish it was true that they weren't doing themselves any favors by making users hate them, but in the era of people thinking facebook = internet, this is behavior is sadly on par.
Amusingly, googling "Baldur's Gate 3 Jaheira Actor youtube" doesn't even give the youtube link. It just gives this HN submission, a few down on the list, which is now asking for what her original youtube link was.