Yeah, that was ridiculous. A random video that has nothing to do with the article. Contempt for the reader and for the author and the material. Publishers wil

Yeah, that was ridiculous. A random video that has nothing to do with the article. Contempt for the reader and for the author and the material. Publishers will respond to criticism like this by claiming that economic realities force them to avoid linking outside the site and to use obtrusive advertising and self-promotion. But there are plenty of counterexamples: LWN, for example, links extensively in every article to destinations all over the web and uses none of these user-hostile techniques—and their content is varied and at a consistently high level.