I open the link -- the whole page is covered with a message I could barely get closed "WEVE DETECTED AN ADBLOCKER" meanwhile the key piece of the article is someone else's YouTube video. How many people would be looking at this article if they weren't freeloading off someone else's content and it had no A/V? Give me a break.
> It looks like you’re using an ad blocker. With almost half of web users now running ad blockers, it’s now getting very hard to sustain an educational website and keep it free.
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I do not know what kind of advertisement they host, but it is perfectly feasible (if less lucrative) to host privacy-preserving user-friendly ads.
I adblock everything anyway as the internet is generally terrible, but I am aware that many good intentioned website are caught in the crossfire of this war.
