Somewhat agree, but the game puts websites in a very tough place. If you're depending on writing articles for income, either you do the dark patterns and scrap

Somewhat agree, but the game puts websites in a very tough place. If you're depending on writing articles for income, either you do the dark patterns and scrape by, or you run out of money and close shop. For news reports it's even worse because there's heavy incentive to use low quality sources for your posts. I hate proposing yet another subscription service, but it would be much more bearable for everyone to have a netflix style model. Flat rate a month in exchange for free access to quality news and content without the dark patterns. I'm certinaly not holding my breath on that happening though.