The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.
The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can’t afford to pay for actual content.
We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there’s a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc… so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.
Give me a site that is readable and I will read it on the site. But I haven’t encountered a site that wasn’t bloated with enshitified web 2.0 BS in years. The instant I click on a link and I have to click off 5 pop ups and have an autoplaying video following me as I scroll then I’m gone. And that’s with an ad blocker. I can’t imagine how much more nightmarish most modern sites would be without one. As it is typically when I click a link I a shown to a moist dumpster where if I hunt around it enough I might find all the pieces of an article someone wrote. Even then the article is usually written for SEO not to be readable by people.
Give me a site where I can just click the link and read the article and I will hapily do so. I don’t care about your newsletter. I don’t care obout your cookie policy (read my browser settings). I don’t care about the 10 unrelated celebrity gossip articles you are sticking in the middle of the one I am trying to read. Don’t make me “click to continue reading”. And that stupid video you have following me around is only driving me away.