I’m tired of digging through crud to try and get to your website. The popup ads, autoplay videos, subscription forms, and other clutter make it next to impossible to go there and read anything.

Add that to one of my greatest pet peeves: the sites that add extraneous stuff to anything you copy and paste. I used to frequently use Relevant Magazine as a source for my “Links To Go.” No more. It’s not worth the hassle of editing out “Read more at…” every time I copy something from an article. (every time I copy the title or copy an excerpt… it’s a little much!) Now I may read things on their site, but if I want to refer to them, I Google them and find them elsewhere. (And I’m also looking at you, ____ website)

So if you’re wondering why traffic is down on your site, maybe it’s because other people feel like I do. Maybe you don’t care; we aren’t paying subscribers. We’re merely consumers of what you are offering. You are well within your rights to tell us to go away if we’re not going to pay.

That’s what you’re telling me, anyway. See ya!

P.S. (9:00 a.m. CDT) — Just subscribed to an email newsletter. Not via an obnoxious popup nor in-your-face video. It was a link in the signature of a well-written article on MacWorld.