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This is what I remember the Washington Post looking like when I read it back in the 90's: http://large.stanford.edu/prizes/nobel/news/wp/images/wpbig.jpg http:/
by alexanderdmitri 9y ago
This is what I remember the Washington Post looking like when I read it back in the 90's: http://large.stanford.edu/prizes/nobel/news/wp/images/wpbig.jpg http://large.stanford.edu/prizes/nobel/news/wp/images/wpbig....
I don't remember ever seeing ads mixed in with the main content. I think it was general practice to section them off somewhere else or put them in the classifieds.
Compare with: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/10/22/the-nobel-committee-got-it-wrong-ngugi-wa-thiongo-is-the-writer-the-world-needs-right-now/?utm_term=.4e466392ab6b https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/...
Then check out the parties sending js to your browser behind the scene. Apples and oranges IMO.
- pcl 9y agoI saw no ads on your second link. Then I remembered I have my ad blocker enabled...
- alexanderdmitri 9y agoThese two scripts seem to have found good workarounds for my current ad-blocker's attempts: https://js.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/rum/wprum.min.js https://js.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/rum/wprum.min.js https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/ad/zeus/wp-ad.min.js https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/ad/zeus/wp-ad.min.js Looking at the output from the browser's console log on this page has me feeling like advertisers and analytics are a pretty gropey bunch. No means no, stop trying to touch my local storage!