I hate the ads and tracking too, but I don’t think “not visiting them ever again” is a real punishment for them if you bypass all the things that make your visit profitable to them.
“Oh no - all these users who don’t make us any money refuse to tax our servers with their bandwidth. The horror!”
They never claimed they do it to punish website owners though. I see it as them having found the experience annoying enough to opt out from using the service altogether
Click link to website
Remove popup for their shitty app
Deny cookies
Halfway through paywall pops up
Never visit website again
*laughs in noscript*
I also add them to my pihole blocklist if I’m not feeling lazy
I hate the ads and tracking too, but I don’t think “not visiting them ever again” is a real punishment for them if you bypass all the things that make your visit profitable to them.
“Oh no - all these users who don’t make us any money refuse to tax our servers with their bandwidth. The horror!”
They never claimed they do it to punish website owners though. I see it as them having found the experience annoying enough to opt out from using the service altogether