He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I'll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
… he found the contract. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I'm right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
— Ubik, Philip K Dick, 1969
Apple read Ubik and took the lesson to build everything with proprietary screw heads.
But now when you block one, it says "If you block XYZ, News will stop showing stories from this channel, except when selected by the Apple News editors".
Ridiculous. If I go to the trouble of blocking a site, that means I don't want to see anything from them, ever.