https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/your_frustration_is_the_product

“It’s 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.”

For ages I’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’s web destruction practices have reached the end of the road.

The ad-click web is dead.