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It's your ad preferences. If they can't slot a valuable ad for your position, they go on to remnant networks. Install something like uBlock or uMatrix (or both
by lowmagnet 11y ago
It's your ad preferences. If they can't slot a valuable ad for your position, they go on to remnant networks.
Install something like uBlock or uMatrix (or both) and then put them in permissive mode. You'll see about 48 domains connected in uBlock.
That's a lot of 3rd party domains to deliver content; digging down, about 2 are related to the content, and the remainder are ad networks and social garbage.
All to serve about 20k of text. As many others have noted, there's something really wrong with the web. It's not just their brand, it's everybody's.
Note: I work for a newspaper company.
- lifeisstillgood 11y ago>>> If they can't slot a valuable ad for your position, they go on to remnant networks I guess the answer is economics, but just don't go onto remnant networks. But yes, there is something very wrong - but it's been wrong since banner ads were cool. I think it's not the tragedy of the commons but rather the profitability of the commons. Common ownership is not inherently profitable, even if it is inherently valuable. Maybe adblockers are the right answer. We shall see in ios9 I guess.
- lowmagnet 11y agoRight-o on remnants. I'd rather we display no ad than a low quality one. The most valuable type of ad is the brand establishment ad, where they care more about mass demographics than tracking users. They will rise again in the wake of ios9 blockers since disabling tracking ads will become one of the available heuristics. I'd love to see ads go away, but we might as well start by eliminating the scum first.