As someone who worked (briefly) as a freelance writer online, the tl;dr bot is my enemy and I want it dead.
hightrix @ hightrix @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 511Joined 2 yr. ago
hightrix @ hightrix @lemmy.world
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You can blame the bot for decreased ad revenue all you’d like but it’s malarkey.
Websites have poisoned the well, so to say. It is simply not smart to browse these sites without ad blockers. Constant popups, cookie banners with 100s of toggles, flashing ads for random junk, and so on were driven by greed originally and are now driven by survival. If the greed could have subsided just a bit and website owners not tried to make all the money, people wouldn’t need to use tldr bots or adblockers.
Sorry not sorry, fuck your ad supported content.