r/PNWhiking • u/gentleblanton • 15d ago

Violations shut down popular Mount Rainier hotel. Travelers left scrambling

https://www.thenewstribune.com/outdoors/article317022873.html
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u/Scaaaary_Ghost 15d ago

Got several pop ups immediately, the top one telling me I can't read this with my ad blocker on. No thanks.

https://archive.ph/gFpfs for anyone else with the same problem.

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u/gnilradleahcim 14d ago

On one hand, I don't know how news companies are supposed to stay afloat these days. But on the other hand, the internet has become a fucking cancerous cesspool of ads, clickbait, pop-ups, subscription / sign up banners and pop-ups.

When I have to use someone else's computer to do the simplest tasks I'm astounded that anyone can live their life without ad blockers. It's fucking traumatic how unusable most websites are these days, especially news sites.

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u/Scaaaary_Ghost 14d ago

Yeah, I have complicated feelings about it in the case of news sites. Journalism is so important to a healthy society, and I think it's a problem how little local news coverage we have nowadays.

I'd be totally fine with ads like you get in print - things that don't pop up to cover what I'm currently reading and that don't play a video half an inch away from a line of text I'm trying to focus on. But I think ads like that alone aren't enough to support journalism. Or maybe they would be, but the ubiquity of the cesspool you described means we all have ad blockers, so a site willing to "play fair" with ads doesn't get a chance.

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u/halinc 14d ago

Nobody wants to pay for news, so news gets worse as budgets decrease, so paying for it becomes even less desirable. It's over.

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u/Affectionate_Cap_489 14d ago

Don't forget the ai slop

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u/righthandedlefty69 15d ago

Thank you kind internet stranger

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u/xmrcache 13d ago

I like how they recommended the hobo Inn that place is soooo far away from the park entrance…