Please allow ads! JK, you need to subscribe, too! LOL
"Ads keep our content free to you to enjoy, please allow ads."
Allowing ads to the site
LOL!! You fell for it!!! You need to subscribe too, LOL!
I've said it before, but news companies and magazines like this deserve some of the blame for the proliferation of "fake news." Monetary needs or not, when they lock legitimate reporting behind paywalls that simply guarantees people are going to get their news from "free" sources instead.
I understand the need for revenue, but another solution should have been found that didn't effectively turn facts and reality into premium subscription content.
It should be pretty simple: real news that affect people's lives should always be free, since that's a journalist's duty to society.
Entertainment, sports, and the other stuff can be behind a paywall because people do pay for stuff like that. Plus, sensationalized stories about celebrities to get views would be far less damaging to society than sensationalized (often fake) stories about politicians to get the same views.
100% this.
In the UK, all the Bylines news sites are free (with the odd ad).
Sounds like they're doing something right
I mean back in the olden days I would pay for a newspaper, for example, because the ads were USEFUL. Every week there'd be a motors section where all the dealers would advertise their deals on a full page each, and punters would try and sell their clapped-out cars in the classifieds. Then once a week it was the day for job vacacies, another day was property. Gradually the businesses started getting websites and stopped advertising in papers - which in turn got thinner and less useful. They had their own websites but most never worked out how to make money from them. People could get their news on TV, newspapers were only useful for starting fires with.
Magazines have followed a similar pattern I guess. It's a bit of a death spiral. Sad, but there you go. The online ads are just garbage, they're not useful at all. I don't want them, I don't want anything they're trying to sell.
my town has one of those ad magazines that comes out every month with a small calendar of civic events. there's a 35% off coupon to the weed store in there every month. I'll take the entire book of ads for that discount.
That is not mildly infuriating. That is straight up burn them to the ground and never look back.
If I land on a site using Admiral AAB I do two things...
I really, really dislike Admiral AAB. Why would you want to evade a user's adblocker just to ask them to switch it off? I will keep it on thank you very much!
that would be an instant block on my pihole server. Yea that site doesn't need any of my traffic
It says Continue without disabling on the bottom of that banner, which if you do, it gives you access to the whole site without hassling you again. At least it does on my end with Firefox.
Obviously it's bullshit to constantly badger you, but it doesn't currently restrict access to anything.
So it's a shitty crop used for rage bait.
I fucking hate people.
Cough cough archive.ph
I just got a new router which actually got asgard baked into it and honestly it's disgusting how many trackers there are.
You want me to PAY for that?
It doesn't though. Because AI was trained on human data, it contains and can replicate human errors. Its extremely rare yes, especially compared to real human output, but I have personally seen ai make misspellings and other human-like errors in its output.
Excellent point. Huh.