I hate the ads and tracking too, but I don’t think “not visiting them ever again” is a real punishment for them if you bypass all the things that make your visit profitable to them.
“Oh no - all these users who don’t make us any money refuse to tax our servers with their bandwidth. The horror!”
They never claimed they do it to punish website owners though. I see it as them having found the experience annoying enough to opt out from using the service altogether
I hate the ads and tracking too, but I don’t think “not visiting them ever again” is a real punishment for them if you bypass all the things that make your visit profitable to them.
“Oh no - all these users who don’t make us any money refuse to tax our servers with their bandwidth. The horror!”
They never claimed they do it to punish website owners though. I see it as them having found the experience annoying enough to opt out from using the service altogether