PCMag demands $12000 to link to an article

(twitter.com)

45 points | by jasonthorsness 16 hours ago ago

13 comments

  • jasonthorsness 16 hours ago ago
    • necovek 16 hours ago ago

      Would it make sense to ask for a reciprocal fee to link to Paint.net (lower in the text)?

      "You can keep the link for $10k/$15k, though I am happy to consider it a payment for me to link to your article too."

    • solarkraft 15 hours ago ago

      That’ll be $12000.

  • kristianp 10 hours ago ago

    For context, this guy is the author of paint.net (this wasn't obvious to me initially).

    https://paint.net/

  • CSSer 14 hours ago ago

    So from the author’s reply, you can see that PCMag won. They got exactly what they wanted, and they would have in every scenario.

    • hitekker 7 hours ago ago

      ? This looks terrible for PCMag.

      • CSSer 6 hours ago ago

        They don't care. They've decided they're large enough and insulated enough that it doesn't matter to them. Decisions like this aren't just made by someone who received an email after a bad lunch.

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    • snypher 12 hours ago ago

      Well, if they wanted me to have the unfortunate experience of reading Eric Griffith's bio and having an even lower opinion of their publication, it was a total success.

      Edit; oh people like DaVinci Resolve, how insightful. If this is the media replaced by an AI summary please accelerate the timeline.

  • NetMageSCW 14 hours ago ago

    How the once mighty have fallen.

  • dcrazy 11 hours ago ago

    So they’re pulling the J.D. Power scam.

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  • aaron695 8 hours ago ago

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