> More importantly, the former provides a more granular system: different people can get different things based on what they want or how they act. I disagree.

> More importantly, the former provides a more granular system: different people can get different things based on what they want or how they act. I disagree. The web is the way it is, flooded with click-bait, ads masquerading as editorial, opinion and political agenda masquerading as journalism, viral power masquerading as truth, because of the "free"[1] junk food consuming habits that most people are prone too most of the time. This utterly and fundamentally transforms the web for everyone, because there is little air left for alternatives to breathe, leaving them stunted if not still-born. The same damage that the article explains as happening to journalism is happening to all other important things on the web. - [1] That ads give us the web for free is utter bullshit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237