[Tom's Hardware] Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription - eviltoast
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    9 months ago

    So now I have to pay to see ads for Intel?

    Seriously though, I think this is great. With it being one of the top results when searching for benchmarks, and how biased it’s become, it would be great if better sites can overtake it

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      9 months ago

      Doesn’t visiting a site then quickly hitting the back button derank that site for search results? I’d love to see this site fall to the second page as a result.

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    9 months ago
    1. Make a website that simply displays the text “Intel is faster than AMD” and nothing else.
    2. Put it behind a $5/mo subscription
    3. Profit
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      9 months ago

      It was kinda useful to find out if one part was underperforming compared to other users that have the same config. Completely useless to compare between different setups tho.

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    9 months ago

    Too bad, I had a lot of fun reading about Advanced Marketing Devices, Neanderthal social media accounts, canned game reviews and insults to user’s critical thinking skills. It was one of those “so bad that it’s actually good” kind of things, once you realized what was going on.

    But this suicide move is probably for the best overall.

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      9 months ago

      Amd CPU was under performing until about 2017.

      But the time amd was better, that shit stain of website was so obvious it was comical.

      What is not comical is that US and German taxpayers have to bail out Intel and pay for their share buybacks because we [CAN’T] expect major corporation to use it owns funds for capital expense of their product capacity. Clown system.