New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos::People are listing short-term rentals on social media and lesser-known platforms, bolstering a rental black market in New York City.

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        1 year ago

        And Ars Techina…

        They own a shit ton of media and I’ve never seen a positive improvement after they took something over.

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          None of these companies want to improve anything other than quarterly profits and will take whatever shitty action to get there

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            Yeah, the big tipoff that Conde owns a website is they post a lot of “great deals for ____!” posts.

            Because they all use affiliate links.

            And a lot less actual reviews of products because those have to be written. So you end up with a giant page full of links to a 100 products with maybe a sentence for each link.

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              News companies switched to affiliate links from ads. Even The New York Times made the switch. Google, Facebook, and Craigslist are their lunch.

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