What Killed Fmovies? Death By a 1000 Cuts, One Killer Blow, Or Possibly Both. (torrentfreak.com)

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Kind of looks like the site owner quit while he was ahead instead of getting arrested

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Smart move.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Goddamn, I’ve been reading Torrentfreak for years and even have them in my RSS. They’re irreplaceable.

I just wish I could send their writer/writers back to school. So. Painful. To read. Twice as long as needed, every article.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Articles are often made intentionally too long (ever notice recipes that force you to scroll through loads of irrelevant copy about the ingredients before you can get to the ingredients list and directions at the bottom?), this probably has to do with advertisements which will fire off when you scroll far enough down the page, it counts like an additional page view and the site makes more money.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s SEO-style writing. A pox on humanity.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, though supposedly SEO could actually penalize articles for something like this, the SEO requirements keep changing but I bet there is a balancing act between keeping SEO happy and keeping up your ad impressions.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yup. I get that they need to monetize the site so they can keep it open, but it seems like when you’re writing for an audience of pirates, those guys are all gonna have ad blockers anyway.

I’m not about to drop them since nobody else does what they do, but that shit is painful.