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* sigh * another nightmare site that pops a nearly page-covering advertising overlay that, when dismissed, ignores the fact that the visitor has expressed a cho
by lutusp 10y ago
* sigh * another nightmare site that pops a nearly page-covering advertising overlay that, when dismissed, ignores the fact that the visitor has expressed a choice and continues to auto-play multiple video and audio streams.
New rule -- sites that pop overlays while auto-playing multiple video and audio streams, lose the right to complain about ad blockers.
- AlecSchueler 10y agoI've actually started adding sites like this directly to my hosts files, no/few questions asked, just so I don't accidentally go there in the future.
- lutusp 10y agoYou could submit such finds to one of the aggregators of hosts-file contents, so others could benefit. Just saying.
- yoodenvranx 10y agoSomeone should scrape all the links submitted to HN for Ads and overlays and autoplaying videos, rate the severity and provide the result via an API so that I can use a greasemonkey script to filter those pages from HN.
- dagenleg 10y agoHow about just installing noscript/umatrix?
- jasonkostempski 10y agoAnyone browsing without an ad blocker should probably lose the right to complain about ads too :)
- CamperBob2 10y agoYeah, that page makes a great test suite for defensive-browsing software and extensions. Flashblock and KillSticky were able to parry its opening salvos, but it still managed to sneak in some auto-playing audio. HTML5 is really no better than Flash, it's just harder to block. We've been sold quite the bill of goods.