[joshspankit]

And blacklist anything with those outbrain blocks. “One weird trick to _____.”

Very surprised where I see those these days, and they always make me run away.

[dorkwood]

The fact that news websites happily adopted those is disgusting. They're literally tricking people into thinking it's news content.

[icedistilled]

And they also, for the longest time, strongly turned me off paying for any news sites. The more they use scummy ads that turn people off, the more they need ad revenue.

That's a nice negative feedback loop or catch-22