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I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience. As time goes on I am valuing my time more and more
by jmts 10y ago
I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience. As time goes on I am valuing my time more and more, and that five second delay mid-read (that costs me another ten to find where I was up to) when I move my cursor off the current window and end up with a pop-up, or some ad mid-article that disappears half-way resulting in a quarter screen shift in content is becoming increasingly frustrating.
Of course the flip-side is coming up with a better way. I haven't yet thought of anything glaringly obvious, but surely it involves making people happy, and not pestering them and treating them as just another set of eyes.
- jasonkostempski 10y ago"I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience." I made an FF add-on for myself for that exact purpose, here's a comment thread about it from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949693