Sure. This site is one of very few sites I can bear to visit. I come here for the comments, I don't even open the links anymore, I just assume people will quote anything important.

When I made my own website, I deliberately set out to avoid as many of these obnoxious dark patterns as humanly possible. The result was basically a marginally improved motherfucking website and I'm actually pretty happy with it. I think that's how websites should be.

If the web is gonna turn into an opaque proprietary mess for the benefit of advertisers, it doesn't even deserve to exist.

> Are you going to stop buying from ecommerce sites

Absolutely. I already avoid it.

> viewing youtube

Absolutely. I already use yt-dlp, if that stops working I'm just gonna forget about it.

> and reading your gmail?

I rarely read it anyway.