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Guess they finally realized the amount of revenue from a free site with ads far outweighs the diminishing viewers that pay considering the competition.

I visited QZ daily and stopped ever since the paywall. Ars Technica and The Verge have had the privilege of my eyeballs since then.

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Ars Technica is on my shitlist because they chose to make their site content shift around as you scroll, to make way for ads or email lists or whatever. I don't know why devs and designers at these companies don't fix this.

>> I don't know why devs and designers at these companies don't fix this

Because they are not in charge.

The product/ad/business team could "fix" this, and then what would happen is they'd layoff some folks (usually editorial side) a few months later as the revenue drop hits home.

I doubt the product/ad/business team sees any benefit when page content shifts around and Google downranks the site for it.

I've never noticed this, but it may be due to me not browsing internet without ublock origin, who would do that?

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