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Real Conservatives Should Kick the Drudge Habit and Bookmark Whatfinger
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 09/20/2020 11:40:18 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

It’s no secret that the Drudge Report has now gone over to the dark side of American politics and become just another corrupt propaganda site for the Democrat Party and the American Left. Matt Drudge, whose site became famous as the Internet maverick that outed Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, is a famed Trump hater, along with his best buddy, Ann Coulter.

Drudge began tilting his news aggregation service towards the Left shortly after President Trump’s inauguration. Though I have not seen them confirmed, rumors have flown for months that Drudge in fact sold out, and entered into lucrative financial agreements with some of these legacy media outlets to parrot their content on his site.

Things have only trended increasingly left over time, and Drudge’s previously loyal web audience has abandoned him in droves as a result. This collapse in Drudge’s audience created a vacuum for news consumers looking for a more balanced approach, looking for a news aggregator that balances out the constant drumbeat of leftism spewed by the corrupt legacy news media by also presenting viewpoints from the rapidly expanding new media-based universe of conservative-oriented news.

Saturday News Roundup: Adios Tik-Tok, Bye-Bye Bolton Book Advance, and America's Garbage News Media VDO.AI A good number of such conservative-oriented aggregator sites have jumped in to try to fill this vacuum, some of which are named above. They all have merit, but to me, one of these sites has consistently stood above the others, and it is now making serious inroads into absorbing Drudge’s fleeing audience.

Readers at DBDailyUpdate have no doubt noticed that, for the last two and a half years, I have added a note at the bottom of every post advocating Whatfinger.com as my preferred aggregator. Many readers have in fact told me that they initially found this site via a link from Whatfinger, since the folks there began linking to most of my content a couple of years go, and I don’t doubt it.

To be completely transparent, DBDailyUpdate does not have any sort of financial relationship with Whatfinger, but there is no question that Whatfinger drives thousands of hits to my little operation every day, thus helping with the advertising revenue.

Today, the folks who run Whatfinger posted a note describing their revised linking process and revealing stats that detail their site’s incredible growth.

Here’s an excerpt from that note:

As of September 19, 2020, Whatfinger News is now approximately 25.3% of the size of the Drudge Report… making us larger than almost all aggregates below us combined. Below is Google Stats, which Similarweb bases their own stats on… as each day passes now the stats will reflect what Google Analytics shows below… Whatfinger News is now daily doing over 500K pageviews, most days will be 550K plus... making Whatfinger News a 16 million pageview site….

ONLY Drudge is a larger aggregate, but we’re closing fast… With a little publicity, we can overtake him. One word from President Trump or some major publicity, and we can spurt up even faster. Then we can truly help President Trump win over Socialism and the evil that now threatens our nation from the left… [End]

Please click on this link and go read the rest. It’s amazing stuff.

Also, please note that links to topline articles currently live at Whatfinger appear in the upper left-hand corner of every page of DBDailyUpdate. Anytime you see something that piques your interest, just click on it and return some traffic to Whatfinger.

One final action item: If you have any relationship with anyone in the Trump Administration or Trump Campaign, please do anything you can to raise their awareness of Whatfinger. The President recently re-tweeted a tweet that mentioned one of Whatfinger’s competitors, which will no doubt increase that site’s traffic. If President Trump could be convinced to do something similar related to Whatfinger it would no doubt help Whatfinger cut even more into Drudge’s declining audience.

Drudge is the #EnemyOfThePeople now every bit as much as that tag applies to CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times. If you still have Drudge marked as one of your web browser’s bookmarks, do us all – and yourself – a big favor and delete it and replace it with a bookmark of Whatfinger.

Thanks.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: anotherdrudgethread; drudge; drudgealternative; fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain
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1 posted on 09/20/2020 11:40:18 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

I haven’t looked at the Drudge dumpster fire in years. Where have you been guys? Most conservatives have figured tat fag out a long time ago.


2 posted on 09/20/2020 11:41:51 AM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: EyesOfTX

Anyone who didn’t kick the Drudge habit long ago is not a real conservative.


3 posted on 09/20/2020 11:41:55 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: EyesOfTX

I’m game, but that name “Whatfinger?”
Could they not have picked something better, more mellifluous?


4 posted on 09/20/2020 11:44:30 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: EyesOfTX

I still have the bookmark but haven’t used it in a long time.


5 posted on 09/20/2020 11:46:18 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (With age comes wisdom or well practiced ignorance)
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To: EyesOfTX

citizen free press is vastly superior to whatfinger as is rantingly.

whatfinger is has way way too many stories and sifting through it is a mess.

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/
https://rantingly.com/


6 posted on 09/20/2020 11:46:30 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: EyesOfTX

Drudge report = ‘lugenpresse’...


7 posted on 09/20/2020 11:46:40 AM PDT by glasseye ("Remember that it is not a prayer which will keep the darkness at bay, but a sword".)
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To: EyesOfTX

https://thelibertydaily.com/


8 posted on 09/20/2020 11:50:21 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EyesOfTX

‘Whatfinger’ hates my VPN so I use other services.


9 posted on 09/20/2020 11:50:44 AM PDT by glasseye ("Remember that it is not a prayer which will keep the darkness at bay, but a sword".)
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To: EEGator

YES!! Also a good, solid conservative news aggregator!!


10 posted on 09/20/2020 11:52:44 AM PDT by soozla (Truth prevails, regardless of who is willing to accept it ~ now or later.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Whichfinger?


11 posted on 09/20/2020 11:53:54 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: EEGator

I like it. Seems to be a Drudge clone in format but not content.


12 posted on 09/20/2020 11:54:51 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: EyesOfTX

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/


13 posted on 09/20/2020 11:54:51 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Fungi

“I’m game, but that name “Whatfinger?”
Could they not have picked something better, more mellifluous?”

Good question, Fungi.


14 posted on 09/20/2020 11:57:55 AM PDT by Gratia
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To: EEGator

Bingo!


15 posted on 09/20/2020 11:59:21 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Gratia

It’s not hosted by OBiden is it?


16 posted on 09/20/2020 11:59:54 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: EyesOfTX

Citizen free press too. My new drudge

That being said Freerepublic rules! Thank you Jim !!


17 posted on 09/20/2020 12:01:35 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: EyesOfTX

First I’ve heard or it or seen it. Looks interesting. Will start using it a bit more. Can never have enough news sources if they prove reliable.


18 posted on 09/20/2020 12:01:49 PM PDT by Ron H. (True Freedom of speech is at Gab.com)
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To: EyesOfTX

Whatfinger has nasty Ads, an offense against the virtue of chastity.

What-Finger-Nasty-Ads

19 posted on 09/20/2020 12:02:01 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: EyesOfTX

bonginoreport, citizenfreepress, and thelibertydaily also.


20 posted on 09/20/2020 12:03:38 PM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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