To that, I will add: every news executive should be forced to consume the news in a stock browser with no adblock, no accessibility plugins, no Reader View, none of the add-ons that make reading the web bearable:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/#personal-disenshittification
But in all honesty, I fear this would not make much of a difference, because I suspect that the people who oversee the design of modern news sites *don't care about the news at all*.
7/
Cory Doctorow
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2026-03-11 20:48:08 UTC
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