I just sleep with a mask, but I hear you man, that trend is super-irritating. I think it comes from people who cant tell that something is powered on without seeing an led indicator
we need some type of adblock filter for these sites asap, and no I am not volunteering free labor :)
I thought the same as you until I checked and saw that /r/programming is back. That is a professional resource whose merits outweigh the ideological ramifications
As a digg refugee I can say that I am done with reddit, too much dejavu here.
I am using this extension https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher it seems to work pretty well, I just switched back to firefox after a decade with chrome, now that they dont mind being evil I am not going to keep using their products.