An amateurish dick measuring contest

Samantha Bielefeld talking about The Verge: What I would like to see is the author not afraid to bite the hand that feeds, to confront the real issue here...the problem isn't with there being advertising on the web driven by page impressions. The issue is how awful they look, how invasive they can be (auto-play audio/video, yuck!), their attempts at deceiving your website's audience, and tracking your every mouse click or tap around the web in order to serve their own needs while sacrificing the...