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Comey case dismissed after Trump aide 'with no experience' tries to begin trial (www.themirror.com)

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Wanting: tangent rant incoming about the site, not the article.

JFC, what a horrible source, that site is cancer

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Yeah, that is a lie

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Well fucking A, I have the right to object, but you'll do it anyway

Great to know that you and your 1540 fucking partners all together respecty privacy, i feel so much fucking better already!

And mind you, this shit is the best we can get with the gdpr. Without that, it would be a hundred times worse than this.

But okay, let's reject everything and try to read the article, shall we? Read the intro paragraph, okay, scroll down a little to read the next and boom I now have a search bar covering half of my page? That's weird, where did that come from? It's blocking literally 50% of the page, I can't read shit. How can I get rid of this? Oh, a close button. Let's naively close this, naively because we already know better but anyway, click... Aaaaaaand it was a fucking ad. Okay go back, reload page, scroll down aaaaand half the page blocked with another ad

So as you might have figured, this browser didn't have an ad blocker (using Lemmy connects internal browser here) andr the site is completely and 100% useless, I can't read it on a mobile device. So why even bother, then?

I'll be adding themirror to my permanent block list right now, I won't ever be able to see anything from that site ever again. I suggest you all do the same and that we add themirror to a list of banned sources for this sub or, better, this instance.

I'm so SO sick and tired of the crap that is now the internet. I gettit, these guys too need to earn a living, but there are better ways to set this up.

Let's make a world wide independent foundation funded by all governments and that one can pay news organizations to write news. The only rule should be "be independent and truthful". This is just a single dumb example, I'm sure there are even better ways but FFS, anything is better than this shit

I'm getting to the point where I think I'll build a web scraper that will just take out the text, maybe a few relevant images, and the render that into a page that shows just that. I know a few sites that can already do that but I'd like something for myself, just self hosted or something.

Yes, it's the middle of the night and yes, I cannot sleep and yes, this pisses me off because I just wanted to read some news to relax but instead I have to furiously rant because these fuckers again didn't know that enough should be enough

/Rant