title: From the DF Archive, a Decade Ago: ‘The Industry Is Fucked Up’
author: John Gruber
contenttype: article
publication: Daring Fireball
published: 2026-03-23T18:09:32+00:00
sourceurl: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/07/09/ritchie-bad-ads
word_count: 52
Here’s a post from 2015, linking to Rene Ritchie, then still at iMore, explaining how iMore found itself serving ever worse (and more reader hostile) ads. Not much has changed regarding the state of web advertising in a decade, and iMore — once a truly great site — is defunct . ★