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Unread 11-24-2003, 10:18 AM   #58
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Also you know what MSCooling? Hardware websites in general have gone way downhill. The tech sector crash and decline of ad revenues made a lot of sites deperate to find enough money to keep going. And the manufacturers got a lot shrewder in manipulating the online media with NDAs and conditions and only providing products to those that promote. And Joe was as far as I know the first to comment on this publicly a year or so ago to a huge backlash among other webmasters. And that's the same thing we are saying here; hardware sites aren't run for consumers any more but as a marketing tool for mfgrs. It's not a popular thing to say but it's true. And what do we get when we make these comments? People call us bitchy and leave the site to go to places where the opinions of readers don't even matter. Yay logic.l
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