They&#x27;re very shortsighted. I only ever get to wired.com through things like links from HN so I&#x27;m not going to pay them money or disable my adblocker for the reasons they even list in their own article.<p>This means since I can&#x27;t view their articles, I definitely won&#x27;t be upvoting them on places like HN since I can&#x27;t read them, and I&#x27;m sure others are in the same boat.<p>They could have done this in so many other ways, but they chose the way that was openly hostile to their viewers. Good luck declaring war on your own readerbase, wired.