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9to5mac is slop at its finest

I personally own a few Apple devices, mainly my phone, so at some point, I started looking for a news source to know when updates will be expected, new features to expect, etc.

9to5mac is the one that pops up at the top of search engines, naive me thought it looked alright at first glance.

The facade of this website falls as soon as you add their RSS feed to your reader: you’ll be greeted by what can only be described as just ads and just speculations.

For instance, the following kind of ad is posted quite frequently to pad the content the website offers:

Article masquerading as news but instead being an advertisement for an app.

Same with rumours, they claim to have a “release date”, yet this is a nonexistent product that random people online only speculate about. Rumours make up most of the padding 9to5mac has.

Article claiming they have information on the release of the next AirTag, when in reality, there is no information.

I’m not a fan of having slop in my RSS reader, my mistake for trusting a website like that.

Happy May 1st!

Quick post to wish everybody a happy International Workers’ day.

And for the few Finns reading this, happy Vappu as well.

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