The thesis of this article is that advertisements no longer work as an enticement to get people to buy things, so they've started being used as a cudgel to forc

The thesis of this article is that advertisements no longer work as an enticement to get people to buy things, so they've started being used as a cudgel to force people into subscriptions, and it's going to get worse. I think this was clear a long time ago, but I guess it's good when someone says it on a fairly widely read blog.