On Facebook, my feed is full of thousands of amateur writers trying to interest me with cats, jokes, rants, and family pictures. They also do news, politics, religion, and anything else they think will get attention (including like-begging)<p>On Wired, I got what? 100 folks all doing the same thing only with more taste and style?<p>I get the fact that Wired, on average, is better consumable content than Facebook, but hell, Facebook is <i>free</i>. The rest of the net is <i>free</i>.<p>I do not have an answer for the Wired guys, but I gotta admit it&#x27;s sad&#x2F;funny that Facebook and Google are such close partners with so many content providers. They&#x27;re the guys driving the bus that&#x27;s taking you over the cliff.<p>For the record, I own the device or app that consumes my content over the net. If I choose to own a device or app that only displays text, or only displays text from certain domains? That&#x27;s my business, not yours. You can certainly turn the spigot off or on, and perhaps you&#x27;ll get me to pay for you turning it on, but that&#x27;s the limit of our interaction on this matter. What kind of device I use or whether or not I see certain things you want me to see is none of your freaking business.<p>In addition, as far as I&#x27;m concerned, any information I provide back to the server about what kind of browser I&#x27;m using is highly provisional and subject to change without notice. It is a courtesy that I provide anything.<p>It continues to amaze me that people who are in the business of providing entertainment somehow feel that it&#x27;s a good thing to go to war with the people they are entertaining. For the life of me I just don&#x27;t get how that makes any sense.<p>One day somebody is going to write a &quot;meta browser&quot;, a browser that opens up other browsers in invisible windows and surfs the web, then sucks out filtered content for the user to consume. (There would be a provision for faking out credentials, spoofing the signature, resetting the cookies, signing up under assumed&#x2F;real names, and so forth) Once that day comes, both the browser vendors an the content providers are going to be unhappy. But that&#x27;s where we&#x27;re headed if this radar vs. radar detector battle continues forward. Content consumers will win. They always do. (I imagine we&#x27;re going to see a big push for legislative relief here. Prepare yourselves.)