• parpol@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    My guess is they’ve been planning this for a while and had to combat the adblockers and third party scrapers first.

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      7 months ago

      Most definitely. They were complaining about them not making a profit, and they really thought blaming the few people using an Adblock made sense.

      It’s all to get more Premium subscriptions. The ads are an intentional problem with the “obvious solution” being advertised right there on the homepage.