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uBlock Origin blocked 34 requests/elements on that page alone. Requests to Amazon, Google, Oracle. Tracking pixels, segment tracking, Ad displays, cookie notifications, you name it. This is all on a computer web browser where data collection is somewhat limited when compared to a mobile app.

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After scrolling to the bottom and back up, Brave blocked 69 (nice) “ads and other creepy things”, on the phone. I honestly barely go to sites like this anymore.

Big media is just gross. The quality is dirt-poor, the business models are abusive, and as the Facebook era draws to a close and the money dries up, the production value is trash too. Ars is good in this category, but still bleh.

If this was 30 years ago, Ars would have been a print magazine you'd have to pay maybe $4.99 for. And they'd still struggle.

Magazines with ads and subscription-based models went out of business all the time. The ones that survived either appealed to the widest possible demographic, or had a deep-pocketed benefactor keeping them alive.

I disagree that the quality is dirt-poor. I can still find a decent amount of good articles on Ars Technica, but they also have a lot of noise dedicated to generating clicks and likes. The article posted above is a good example.

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