Tom's Guide

They have gone the way of CNET

They have gone the way of CNET, a once independent and honest reviewer of tech that succumbed to paid reviews and bad links, malware/spyware, click bait and pop-up ads. They probably made a lot more money that way, but became useless and unreliable to consumers, whom they first set out to serve. Now Tom's Guide has not quite gone that far, but from my experience they have begun to publish unreliable reviews that sound more like the press material written by the manufacturers themselves. The reviews also seem to be driven by spec sheet data, without any consideration for actual user experience. They just tout the specs and no longer tell you much about any annoying issues with whatever they are reviewing. The Pixel 6 is my case in point. I bought mine in 2022 based solely off the Tom's Guide review. The only Pixel I had previously owned years before was the Pixel 3, which I did not like, and I heard nothing good from actual user reviews about the Pixels 4 and 5, so I wrote Pixels off entirely, until the Pixel 6 came out and Tom's Guide said something like it was finally the Pixel they had been waiting for, and went on to tout the new Tensor chip and great camera. I decided to give Pixels another shot, and wound up buying one of the buggiest phones in history, with a camera that wasn't much better than the Pixel 3. It still had many of the same problems that they had been criticized for over the years, but Tom's Guide had me believing it was a Brave New World and the True Pixel had finally arrived. Yeah NO. They clearly hadn't used the phone much and just went with the press release fluff, like food magazines that print recipes that they never actually tested, and inevitably wind up disappointing. Now I'm stuck for a while with a phone I don't like, because my budget is pretty slim and I maxed it out on this buy. I gave TG a second star because there is still usable information on the website, you just have to be able to carefully cherry pick which specs and review information to patch together into a sound assessment of eligibility for your next phone. Otherwise I'm done with Tom's Guide as a consistent source of reliable information in tech, as now they're just a co-opted advertising arm of big tech.

When I can open an article, it's good. But too often tapping on picture or print won't work and going to "more from Tom's guide" leads to a bevy of other articles, and the one that drew interest is nowhere to be found. This happens frequently in Google News.

very professional, and the articles are very detailed. However, there are many paid reviews that are biased, and to some extent, with misleading information. For example, on oneplus 7t vs pixel 4 review, there are many facts which are just misleading. If you compare that to pocketnow, the bias is very obvious.

Tom's Guide is very biased against Avast and they are spreading misinformation. I feel bad for companies like Avast who have been discredited due to this "expert site". I wish they could be flagged by fact-checkers. Also, I am sure they are being operated by some companies and a portion of the anti-Avast community.

Well, at some point they've changed up their adblocking detector and set it to hypersensitive it seems. Can't even get to the site because I'm constantly redirected to another page claiming they've detected adblocking software... that's "paused for all sites". Still blocked me. refreshed and still blocked. Closed chrome and reopened... still. So I'll take their hint, apparently I'm blocked from using their services.