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Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by noad on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:10AM (#23192383)
Yeah, we let the web become Cable TV. It's dying the same slow death as Cable TV while executives scratch their heads about why the perpetual growth stopped.

The advertising is so pervasive, so annoying, so invasive and so awful it just makes the medium unusable. The same trends are starting to creep into podcasting and video games and I just wish people would realize they are slowly destroying their own businesses with this garbage.

Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by paulryanrogers on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:44AM (#23193508)
Mobile games do have a lot of ads, thankfully desktop games have not yet suffered that fate. And it's often possible to pay to remove ads from mobile.