PTPL 211 · Content Farms Have Found My Niche, But the Humans Are Still Winning

Plain Text Slop Soup, Anyone? I was initially excited to discover a new plain text productivity site this week, with sections on open format apps and tips for plain text workflows. Hooray! I thought. Another resource to add to my Blogroll! But a few seconds in, things began to feel off. It didn’t take long to realise that I was looking at one of the internet’s newest claims to shame, the content farm: a site stuffed full of keywords that exists primarily to make money from topics already clocking significant amounts of traffic. These ‘farms’ are always monetised and often use low quality ad partners who consider your rights to privacy and a good user experience, irrelevant. The content on these sites is usually superficial and can reasonably be assumed to be AI-generated. I am writing about one specific site in what is intended to be more of a name-and-educate than a name-and-shame. The site in question presents themselves as follows: OS Note Text is your comprehensive resource for…