It's not just bad, it's the worst format that could exist, if radio and TV have already ruined the attention span this one seems to have the aim of doing just that by showing short content with almost no effort to understand it, a lot of context switching every 10-15 seconds and videos designed to attract as much attention as possible.
You don't have to ban ads outright. A better solution would be to make life easier for ad blockers. Banning technical anti-measures and legal attacks against ad blockers would be a nice start. Then users would be able to choose ad blockers that best fit their needs.
The article doesn't even mention stars and here I only see a few comments mentioning "Polaris", "pole star" or "North star" but I think Polaris is the main reason.
Furthermore, because it was seen up and not down, the cartographers instinctively placed north at the top.
Are you serious?
It seems that cloudflare is one of those companies that doesn't make itself heard much because it's better that people don't know how much pieces of sh*t they are.
While there's plenty of other angles to complain about them, one of the more common ones is the fact that Cloudflare is just as happily providing service for the very same spam sites they claim to protect people against. There's plenty of blogposts that talk about this, but the one I'll give a link to is the one from Spamhaus[0], the guys who run the most popular DNSBL.
Spamhaus also mentions the main problem with their abuse form, which is that it forwards abuse emails to the hosting provider and the web administrator. They pretty much never do anything by themselves and neither the web administrator or the hosting provider have much incentive to disconnect spamming customers (since the admin is hosting it and the hoster usually stays outside of the risk anyway.)
I figure that the discord at the root of the issue you're describing can lead to more uncommon complaints against them, bringing this to mind: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/
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