This is not meant to be purely controversial, but I thought long and hard about WSJ back a few months ago when HN mod (always forget his name) said to stop complaining about HN links being posted because paywalls were ok. I agree paywalls are ok. But some things are not ok.<p>Take a look, for instance, at the WSJ.com home page with an ad blocker turned on (note all the missing letters and scrambled up titles). They want me to pay, and they want me to see ads, and they want to track my behavior? Should I send them my DNA also?<p>Organizations like WSJ are exactly the disease that causes ad blockers to proliferate and ruin the web for all the decent publishers. They're at war with my privacy (by breaking their site intentionally when I visit with a blocker on). They want it all, ads, tracking, your private data, and subscription revenue, not to mention...<p># Agenda-Driven Content<p>I mean, we're basically talking about NBC or Fox here, just on the web. Imagine every morning when you woke up you turned on the television and tune to some "news" show. After talking about the weather, they start talking about a lost pickle that is thought to be potentially alive and moving about with free will. Over the next two years, talk about the same pickle extends to every other TV show. Before you know it, everybody in the nation is talking about the same pickle. Years go by, and that pickle has become a part of our society, and that's not because people are born with an innate care the well-being of pickles, but because "news" shows taught them to be.<p>That's not a good position to be in. I have to believe I'm not the only one in here that doesn't watch any TV. So, why do we all treat the same media giants differently on the web? We crave their content so much that we build browser add-ons to get to their content, etc.