>>23072548
>why would they do this?
To hide from users and advertisers the fact that 4chan is losing users at an alarming rate, in part due to the retarded decisions that mods keep making, like adding 3 captchas, email verification and timers in a desperate attempt to stop spammers that bypass these filters without effort. Since implementing these filters, all of the boards that already were slow (with an average of 1000 ppd or less) lost between 100 and 300 ppd, with most of them essentially becoming desert towns.