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I hate this new trend where existing text you are reading is faded out and replaced with an ad. So you have to scroll up to read what you were reading, then hi
by sliken 8y ago
I hate this new trend where existing text you are reading is faded out and replaced with an ad. So you have to scroll up to read what you were reading, then hit the ad again.... only to scroll past the ad and realize they don't show the previous paragraph... to hit the ad again.
I'm sure it's great for ad impressions, but the hate it generates surely outweighs any possible benefit to the advertiser.
No wonder revenue per ad is dropping.
- m_mueller 8y agoit bothered me too, but this site was IMO a case where the illustration made up for it.
- wtvanhest 8y agoIts unreadable.
- keymone 8y agoI read it.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoI gave up. My time is limited. They could have got the message over with a one page executive summary and left it to me to scroll through the details if I thought they were necessary.
- TomMarius 8y agoI'm pretty sure that's exactly what they don't want to do. You can't ignore their interests.
- _0ffh 8y agoOh yes, we can. If a site bothers me, I won't read there.
- _carl_jung 8y agoThen you win I guess.
- oAlbe 8y agoI'm surprised every time I read about people's disappointment about ads, especially on HN. Not because I have problems with their disappointment, but because it genuinely surprises me to discover people that don't use ad blockers, even more on HN. What's the reason for this? What moves so many people to opt against using an ad blocker? It surely can't be lack of awareness that such tools exist, not for an audience like that of HN.
- matt4077 8y agoAwareness that free content won’t exist in a world where everyone uses ad blocker? I sometimes find ads annoying when, fir example, they change the layout. But I leave it in by default. What I don’t understand is what you think you have to gain from advertising ad blockers? If people subsidize your entertainment, shouldn’t you be happy?
- peteretep 8y ago> Awareness that free content won’t exist The sooner ad revenue nosedives, the sooner someone will figure out micro-payments for content, the happier I will be to know the full cost of what I'm paying for content, rather than opaquely giving up my privacy.
- gpvos 8y agoAs far as I'm concerned, I'm not using an ad blocker, I'm using a third party tracker blocker. A reasonable number of ads, even in the middle of an article, are fine with me (well, as long as they don't pop up, obscure content, move or animate, or make sound). The name of the former extension "RequestPolicy" neatly sums up what I want: to be able to tell my browser to contact only hosts that I want it to contact. Also, malware blocker and CPU cycle saver.
- thecatspaw 8y agoI would be happier if that subsidizing wouldnt require a invasion of my privacy. I am aware that there's no such thing as 'free content'. However I would be much happier if I could pay 5$ a month or so to some 'we'll distribute that to the websites you frequent' type of service.