The Verge is a lot like Ars Technica. There are some stellar, top notch journalists at both outlets doing important work, and there’s a firehose of press release regurgitation and bootlicking from the other side of the house, and if you don’t pay attention to individual journalists’ bylines you have absolutely no indicator whatsoever which is which. Like Buzzfeed was, back in the good days of Buzzfeed News, except Buzzfeed at its lowest was just TMZ crossed with Quizilla.