<story><title>Why Web Pages Suck</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2015/why-web-pages-suck/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>AdBlock renders most advertising a moot point. What&amp;#x27;s far more annoying is how every website insists on blocking out the page with a popover asking me to sign up for their newsletter when I&amp;#x27;m not even halfway done reading the article. Does this actually work? Do people actually sign up for newsletters from these things? Usually it makes me just abandon whatever I was reading because I want nothing to do with such an obnoxious website.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Web Pages Suck</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2015/why-web-pages-suck/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notjustanymike</author><text>This article misses one key point: sales and product people.&lt;p&gt;Specifically, sales and product people who neither understand nor care about user experience. These are the kinds of people who say yes to every deal, since the only metric they are judged by is quarterly income. Typically these people are also (rightfully so) terrified of losing their jobs. So they close tons of ad deals, by which point it&amp;#x27;s too late for the developers to stop them.&lt;p&gt;Back when I worked for Newsweek they were the biggest barrier to a quality user experience. The site developers &lt;i&gt;wanted&lt;/i&gt; to built and the site had to was the main reason I left that industry behind.</text></comment>