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Getting hit by a paywall to read this article, maybe made the point better than the article!
Do you usually complain when anything else in life is not completely free?
Either it's paywalls or horrible ads+tracking. I don't know why people expect to get everything for free, just because it's on the internet. Especially something that takes time and effort to make.
PSA: you don't get to complain about "the media" if you're not even willing to pay for quality outlets
They're still tracking the crap out of you even if you pay, so they can fuck right off and die in the gutter.
uBlock Origin only shows Chartbeat and Quantcast as trackers on The Atlantic's website, so I'm gonna say you're talking out of your ass.
"They" in this case refers to media sites in general not limited to this specific one. And pretty much everone still track user behavior to do profiling on their paid users.
Strange, it shows way more than that for me