most tech sites just became an easy cash grab, it’s page displays that counts for publisher, it means money, the content doesn’t matter, you entered the site, they got the money, it ‘helps’ that people nowadays don’t browse organically but click headers in aggregating apps like google news/now feed or web aggregators like lemmy or reddit, like android police for example, most of the news are rubbish like guides on how to change your phone’s volume etc or find best charging cable for your , they also keep refreshing old (often out of date) articles, they show as new with today timestamp and no apparent changes, people point it out in the comments but they don’t care, but i see most news outlets nowadays don’t have comment sections, so maybe AP will delete their discuss in the near future, because users don’t count, content doesn’t count, it’s the revenue that counts, that too is why youtube isn’t showing downvotes count anymore, it clashed with their business model