I grow tired of folks thinking that every journalist somehow magically has control over the business activities of the site, and use that to undermine what they say.
Enough already.
Enough already.
It's pretty on-topic in this specific instance.
The author also wrote "Top 4 Chrome ad blockers that you need to know about"[1] which rails against ads. So they don't want paywalls. They don't want ads. Then what?
It seems their views on all of this are rather unsophisticated (yet they still make broad sweeping statements about it).
[1]: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/08/12/best-chrome-ad-blocker-ext...
When too many JS pop-ups appear, I hit the back button.
Rarely does a website deny access when they detect ad-block, but I’ll happily hit the back button.
Website owners can do whatever they want. I’m not going to look at ads, and that’s a personal choice.