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What an annoying site on mobile. While reading, advertisements load and shift your view to some place in the article you've never seen before. Is this style of

What an annoying site on mobile. While reading, advertisements load and shift your view to some place in the article you've never seen before. Is this style of monetization supposed to make me want to buy a magazine? (No, I didn't finish reading it. I don't care anymore. Definitely not the "worst job in the world".)

danso 10y ago
Have to agree with you, even if it is orthogonal to the excellent content. I kept thinking that the story hadn't fully loaded, and the jankiness was a result of new assets popping in. After the fifth time of accidentally clicking on an ad and losing my place, I quit. What I had read up to that point was great though. Just another example showing how fucked the media industry currently is, in that its executives and leaders don't actually dogfood their own product on digital. There's no way a competent editor or publisher would put up with that reading experience, if they had actually experienced it by reading the story via mobile. But because the story looks great in print, they probably don't care how it isn't on the web site.
Nexxxeh 10y ago
Firefox for Android, and uBlock Origin. I used the "picker" thingy and just zapped the annoying bits. ! Mon Dec 26 07:09:28 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.mobile-header-container ! Mon Dec 26 07:15:55 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.mobile-header ! Mon Dec 26 07:16:45 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.show.component-sub-header I don't know if theirs anything equivalent for iOS.
05 10y ago
'Reader view available' on iOS
jrnichols 10y ago
I read it, and found it to be a very moving and well written article. One of the most emotional things that I've read in a long time. but I had to go into a different browser because the obnoxious, intrusive advertisements were getting in the way of the content. I'm glad I did, though. Your mileage may vary, but it was more personal for me as a paramedic that has seen the immediate aftermath of tragedies.

danso 10y ago

Have to agree with you, even if it is orthogonal to the excellent content. I kept thinking that the story hadn't fully loaded, and the jankiness was a result of new assets popping in. After the fifth time of accidentally clicking on an ad and losing my place, I quit. What I had read up to that point was great though. Just another example showing how fucked the media industry currently is, in that its executives and leaders don't actually dogfood their own product on digital. There's no way a competent editor or publisher would put up with that reading experience, if they had actually experienced it by reading the story via mobile. But because the story looks great in print, they probably don't care how it isn't on the web site.

Nexxxeh 10y ago

Firefox for Android, and uBlock Origin. I used the "picker" thingy and just zapped the annoying bits. ! Mon Dec 26 07:09:28 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.mobile-header-container ! Mon Dec 26 07:15:55 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.mobile-header ! Mon Dec 26 07:16:45 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.show.component-sub-header I don't know if theirs anything equivalent for iOS.

05 10y ago

'Reader view available' on iOS

jrnichols 10y ago

I read it, and found it to be a very moving and well written article. One of the most emotional things that I've read in a long time. but I had to go into a different browser because the obnoxious, intrusive advertisements were getting in the way of the content. I'm glad I did, though. Your mileage may vary, but it was more personal for me as a paramedic that has seen the immediate aftermath of tragedies.