The people who write the article are probably very separate from those programming the CMS, and the marketing types those take their directions from. Dr. Natha

The people who write the article are probably very separate from those programming the CMS, and the marketing types those take their directions from. Dr. Nathalie Maréchal's site https://nathaliemarechal.net/ https://nathaliemarechal.net/ doesn't seem "ad-infested", just a normal Wordpress site, 2 things blocked. She certainly seems to know her stuff, and to dismiss the words in the article instantly, just because they're on a crappy site, without even engaging with the content, is lame. Complaining about blocked ads, ie. just a small number on the screen, someone even saying they should "shut their traps", someone else declaring the (easily changeable) headline clinkbait.. come on. In other circumstances, even outright paywalled articles sometimes just get put on sites that make them readable by someone, and then discussed or not discussed based on their merit. That in this case it's made out to be such a huge issue, that blocked ads on an article that is otherwise perfectly readable is such a "case closed" argument against anything and everything that may or may not be in the article, nah. If it's "a bit hard to take this article seriously", that doesn't mean you just found a flaw in it, it's a flaw in your ability to take it seriously, and to distinguish between the core of something, gimmicks and circumstance. I found it super easy to take it seriously, since I looked up the author and found so many interesting things, and links to other interesting things. I started listening to this talk by the author, https://vimeo.com/98786243 https://vimeo.com/98786243 [0], and it's a bit hard to hear, the audio isn't great. So? If that kept me from listening to it, I would tell that to someone asking me if I listened to it. But why inject myself into a discussion supposed for people who did listen to it by saying I didn't listen to it, because it "was a bit hard to hear"? Like, if I was asking how to download audio, denoise and compress it, fine. But just complain, what does this add? [0] Notice how it's not on YouTube. For which people get ~zero shit by the way; every day countless of dev talks are uploaded to YouTube, and anyone ignoring them because of that would be missing out. To hold it against speakers isn't just silly at best and at worst an excuse to deflect from the content, but for "the crowd" that IMO is "supposed to" bring empowering use of technology closer to people to just judge said people for not having means or knowledge they have is kinda fucked up.