Yes, it's worse than that though. These news sites are pushing ads at paying customers. I saw an ad at wsj.com the other day-- a site I pay an exorbitant sum to

Yes, it's worse than that though. These news sites are pushing ads at paying customers. I saw an ad at wsj.com the other day-- a site I pay an exorbitant sum to browse-- that disappeared the entire article as I scrolled through it. I get it, they used to have ads in printed newspaper and everyone shrugged and read on. However, this is different, and I regularly find myself exasperated by-- when I click on a show in PBS's paid subscription app, they immediately launch a 30-second ad, not the show; Peacock launches a 3-minute ad, not the show. The New York Times shows other reporters the backsides of dogs. I read about Ford prioritizing development of technology they acknowledge their customers will hate to show them similar tripe unbidden in their cars. This is clearly a dystopian development and it turns on its head the old adage that when you pay for a product you become the customer. These businesses are abusing their "customers" by treating them as something less.