"24 ads and other trackers from The Verge attempted to load on that page alone; usually much more if those are allowed to succeed."
None attempted to load with the browser I am using. I was able to read the text of the article and follow any links on the page no problem.
One could hope that "web developers" will stop accepting money in return for putting this garbage into pages. IMHO this is unlikely to happen.
Alternatively, for recreational web use, one can stop using the browsers that auto-load the garbage by default. I did this and has worked better and better for over 20 years.
The popular browsers supplied by so-called "tech" companies have many "features" but they do not allow users to disable auto-loading.
I use ad blocking for decades thus am completely out of touch with how the internet is supposed to look like.
But the other day I used a clean browser to search for something in a store and the first search result was for a competing store! Very sneaky. It's all so fascinating.
I’m well aware of that and that’s my employer (AWS). But I’m not tsk tsking on a moral high ground and clutching my pearls about what the web developers are doing
None attempted to load with the browser I am using. I was able to read the text of the article and follow any links on the page no problem.
One could hope that "web developers" will stop accepting money in return for putting this garbage into pages. IMHO this is unlikely to happen.
Alternatively, for recreational web use, one can stop using the browsers that auto-load the garbage by default. I did this and has worked better and better for over 20 years.
The popular browsers supplied by so-called "tech" companies have many "features" but they do not allow users to disable auto-loading.