Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

I couldn’t get through the article because the website crashed twice when I tried to get rid of one of several modular ad windows covering the article’s content. The modern internet is a dumpster fire, even in articles covering the ways in which the modern internet is a dumpster fire.

Indeed. To be honest, if I didn’t have reader mode on by default, I don’t think I’d use the web at all unless I had to (aside from sites known to not suck, like this one.) Ad blockers simply aren’t enough any more, reader view is the only way the web works for me at this point. It’s truly sad.

I gave up when the auto-playing video started following me down the page.

I don’t understand how they think such hostility is a good idea. It only makes me despise the site and note never to return. But presumably some people go for it?

>> How can we get more people to watch our videos?

> Autoplay it!

>> Oh no, they are scrolling away from it now, how do we get them to keep watching it?

> literally make it always present on the screen no matter where they have scrolled to!

The road to hell, these days, is often paved with marketing OKRs.