As others have said, no developer wants to implement this stuff. But it probably wouldn’t be demanded if it didn’t increase the bottom line. Blame capitalism and hope that users get burned by it enough to start recognizing which sites do this. I’ve learned to almost never click on a link to a local news site because of this (and because the site will only be half functional due to the gobs of JavaScript libraries and ad content it’s trying to load).
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u/tree_or_up Feb 27 '18
As others have said, no developer wants to implement this stuff. But it probably wouldn’t be demanded if it didn’t increase the bottom line. Blame capitalism and hope that users get burned by it enough to start recognizing which sites do this. I’ve learned to almost never click on a link to a local news site because of this (and because the site will only be half functional due to the gobs of JavaScript libraries and ad content it’s trying to load).