> If you "simply blocked all ads" the people making the pages wouldn't have the income which they maintain the pages with.
That's how we get deliberately slow pages, articles split over multiple page loads, image slideshows and deliberately slow pages (because time spent on your site is time not spent on the competing websites).
On the other hand we have pages like HN, paid for(?) using other means and built to be perfectly usable and fast. Or some CSEs where revenue comes from affiliates and CPC fees instead of ads, so they try to keep things fast too. Then we have news sites with paywalls and hopefully some day better engineered UI to read those news.
People should just vote with their pockets for a better user experience, IMO.
People should just vote with their pockets for a better user experience, IMO.
How? How can I vote with my pocket for old.reddit.com instead of new reddit UI? How can I vote for another site which is different, when the main draw of Reddit is the number of people on there?
How can I vote for an instant messenger which works the way I want, when the people I talk to aren't using it because the people they talk to aren't using it?
How can I pay for a faster Windows 10 where the start menu works every time I press the start button and updates install in the time it takes to copy the data to SSD and no longer? That option isn't on the market.
That's how we get deliberately slow pages, articles split over multiple page loads, image slideshows and deliberately slow pages (because time spent on your site is time not spent on the competing websites).
On the other hand we have pages like HN, paid for(?) using other means and built to be perfectly usable and fast. Or some CSEs where revenue comes from affiliates and CPC fees instead of ads, so they try to keep things fast too. Then we have news sites with paywalls and hopefully some day better engineered UI to read those news.
People should just vote with their pockets for a better user experience, IMO.