Daring Fireball4d ago
★ ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’
https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/your_frustration_is_the_product
‘Your Frustration Is the Product’

The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.

Daring Fireball
Show threadsjsmac
@daringfireball And don’t forget, Apple News itself does NOT offer a reader mode. Gee, I wonder why?
Mar 19 at 12:29amIceCubesApp
Show threadLazy B0y3d ago

@sjsmac @daringfireball

protecting users from other people’s ads to shoe more of their own 🤪👍🥹

Show threadChancerubbage3d ago

@sjsmac @daringfireball

It was the bargain struck for magazines and newspapers going digital at all, on any platform . The publishers were in the business of selling ads, not providing editorial content.