Welcome to “hell”. Um.
Oh please. Somebody call the waambulance. The Verge as well as being a big crybaby is also one of the worst offenders when it comes to laggy, spammy, phishy “content” on the web. http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/
Treat your readers with contempt and they’ll happily return the favour. So if this is a case of “you’ll miss us when we’ve gone” then I’d like to test that prediction.
Via Ben Carew
John Hardy Developer 
It has been obvious for years that web users are pissed off with pointless ads,
malwaread tracking and intrusive data collection and mining. The problem is that marketers and advertisers have just got lazy.LikeLike
They never imagined that people would push back even though the basic tools have always existed, even on iOS.
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I had a loud mobile audio ad turn on a few minutes ago.
I don’t even know how.
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I’d never visited any of failed sites they mentioned, like GigaOM; somehow, my web experience still hasn’t been awful.
It’s funny how small companies call for disruption until they have an established revenue stream, then become staunch defendants of the status quo. You’re getting disrupted, guys, just like you disrupted the print and TV industries.
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Here are the top 14 ways we can get rid of crappy sites like the Verge, using this one weird trick. Number 6 will blow your mind!
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If the Verge was around in the past… ” Gopher Massacre.. How HTTP Is Killing Content…5 Amazing Archie Entries That Will Change Your Lynx Usage Forever….”
The only times i run across this site are in links from g+ and twitter post. Third level exposure and all that.
As to the whaaaambulence…yep. Repeat often ….your failed business model is not my problem. kthnxbyeverge
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I for one will not miss iVerge if they were to vanish from the interwebz. Their paid off, Apple could do no wrong, ways must be vanquished from the ether. BE GONE EVIL iVerge!
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