Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers
They choose it though, it's their decision. They tell us over and over how important their work is. Yet you go to their site the first thing you're harassed by a cookies banner, then it's the begging banner "Please give us money blah blah our work is important, honest", then the autoplay video with an ad, then if you're lucky you can read it if they don't block it because they detected an ad blocker or whatever.<p>Yet most journos post the actually meat of the article to a Twitter thread anyway. Why try so hard and give me so many reasons to avoid your actual platform you control?<p>All the ad tracking in the world isn't going to save your company when the generation who grew up thinking your websites are just a bunch of cookie and begging banners don't have the act of going to your site inbuilt in their habits.