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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by naravara on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:40PM (#23316741)
>Since ads are the primary way sites stay in business, they are obligated to fight against user agents or other intermediary systems.

Not all users hate ads in principle, just in practice. In theory, you'd be making the users select ads for relevance and not being annoying. But obviously, the site wants to show ads based on how much they're paying and "not being annoying" only factors in if pushes people off the site entirely.

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