The biggest pile of biased crap I've read for a long time and confirmation for me, at least, that The Verge is ultimately no better than any of the outlets it was trying to replace.<p>They take some bad apples from a niche and use that to extrapolate a whole business model and set of practices as being bad. I think it's sloppy, non-objective, ersatz journalism that merely peddles FUD. And even their choice of "bad apples" is questionable: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Frank-Kern/137568852956377" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Frank-Kern/137568852956377</a><p>I can only speak for Kern and Jenkins but they've both put out some good products and are essentially info publishers who use certain high exposure and highly effective marketing techniques.<p>But if using cheap products to build leads who you then sell bigger ticket products to is a scam, well, a large amount of HN readers are involved in that "scam" too (yes, offering a webinar or a PDF to get people to sign up to your e-mail list is a "scam" supposedly!) Except, it's not a scam.. and this article is just a badly written pile of crap, all IMHO, of course.