{"id":92567,"date":"2026-03-19T08:35:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92567"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:35:41","slug":"gruber-most-of-the-advertising-bearing-websites-i-read-have-gotten-so-bad-that-its-almost-beyond-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92567","title":{"rendered":"Gruber: &#8220;Most of the advertising-bearing websites I read have gotten so bad that it\u2019s almost beyond parody.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2026\/03\/your_frustration_is_the_product\">https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2026\/03\/your_frustration_is_the_product<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s like going to a restaurant, ordering a cheeseburger, and they send a marching band to your table to play trumpets right in your ear and squirt you with a water pistol while trying to sell you towels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For ages I&#8217;ve used Apple Reader in place of an ad blocker. It works well and I also get to see how the natural state of the web. Many sites have been unreadable on mobile for 1-2 years now. A part of the reason ai has enormous consumer adoption is that Google&#8217;s web destruction practices have reached the end of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The ad-click web is dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2026\/03\/your_frustration_is_the_product &#8220;It\u2019s like going to a restaurant, ordering a cheeseburger, and they send a marching band to your table to play trumpets right in your ear and squirt you with a water pistol while trying to sell you towels.&#8221; For &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92567\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92568,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92567\/revisions\/92568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}