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Not just basically - it is a hit piece. It's a website run by and for advertisers, publishers, and media, aiming to monetize content as much as possible. They are supported by advertisers masquerading as ad blockers (uBlock trying to pretend to be uBlock Origin) and sites that literally just advertise.

Just another day of unsavory corporations and the assholes that run them trying to mislead the average consumer.

In nature, the best parasites divert a 'balanced' amount of resources from the host so as to prolong the interaction for as long as possible.

Sometimes reading about things like "balancing publisher monetization" puts the picture in my head of a bunch of anthropomorphized tapeworms trying to have a public policy debate.

It reminds me of the famous spam form letter [1], where one of the standard objections is "Why should we have to trust you and your servers? [to identify which domains should be blocked]"

[1] https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt