They don't read the news, they don't consume the news. They *hate* the news. They view the news as a necessary evil within a wider gambit to deploy adware, malware, pop-ups, and auto-play video.
Rawdogging a Yahoo News article means fighting through a forest of pop-ups, pop-unders, autoplay video, interrupters, consent screens, modal dialogs, modeless dialogs - a blizzard of news-obscuring crapware that oozes contempt for the material it befogs.
8/
Cory Doctorow
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2026-03-11 20:48:21 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…ezlp
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