I don’t think this is something new… Lots of webpages had tons of ads in the 90s and 2000’s.
Yahoo 2002: Yahoo 2002
Or this one from the wall street journal in 2000: WSJ 2000
Compare those to today: Yahoo Today
I don’t think it’s any worse today really.
Oh sure. But you could find plenty of them that didn’t.
The good news was that it depended on the subreddit. Lots of small subreddits didn’t have this problem. However, there were a number of large subreddits that exists for exactly that reason.
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