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by barnabee 12 days ago
Running the website isn’t necessary. These people should try not running any websites for a bit.

It was just fine when most websites were academic or hobby content, not businesses.

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Hobby and academic sites without popups are still there. By quantity there’s likely more of them than ever.
The problem is that financially motivated websites are incentivized to make sure you land on them instead of hobby and academic sites.