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this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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You can blame the bot for decreased ad revenue all you’d like but it’s malarkey.
Websites have poisoned the well, so to say. It is simply not smart to browse these sites without ad blockers. Constant popups, cookie banners with 100s of toggles, flashing ads for random junk, and so on were driven by greed originally and are now driven by survival. If the greed could have subsided just a bit and website owners not tried to make all the money, people wouldn’t need to use tldr bots or adblockers.
Sorry not sorry, fuck your ad supported content.
Yeah, gotta agree. Sites got greedy. One or two out of the way ads on the top or side? Didn't care, show them. Go to any news site or article now and you get top, bottom, every paragraph, flashing, pop up, when you go top left to close, and also accept cookies plz.
No, they're the ones to blame for making the web like this. They ruined ad revenue themselves, they can figure out a new way.
The problem is that people hate pay walls even more than ads.