Supply and demand rule everything. Right now there is simply an insane amount of supply when it comes to news, blogs, and the written word in general and so it

Supply and demand rule everything. Right now there is simply an insane amount of supply when it comes to news, blogs, and the written word in general and so it is made worthless. When a site demands a subscription or puts up an adblocker wall, I can simply put the title into Google and find an extremely similar story elsewhere. As a consumer, if you want me to look at your site, you need to make the case for ME to want to do that. I honestly have no problems viewing ads (they're annoying, sure, but so are children and I can be around them just fine) but the advertisers have completely fucked this relationship by going further and further. More monitoring, more tracking, more privacy invasions, downloading megabytes of Javascript and then there's the malware too for an extra level of screw you. If it's static image content, fine. No HTML ads, no Javascript ads, no epilepsy triggering gif ads, none of that garbage because this is MY computer, not YOUR billboard. Deal with it.