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> If I’m reading an important Wikipedia page I save it to Polar... So sick of seeing this pdf annotation software. You're never safe on this site, you'll be re

• icebraining 7y ago
  You're complaining that a blog post on the site for the Polar software contains ads for the Polar software?
  • arkades 7y ago
    No, he’s complaining about how frequently Polar ads show up on the HN front page. The blog post being an ad.
    • sundar4344 7y ago
      I don't understand. To my knowledge HN does not have ads. Are you saying users posting polar news repeatedly is being considered as ads ?
• arkades 7y ago
  I ... surprisingly agree. I generally am in favor of creators on HN sharing a new product with Show HN, or in threads when it’s relevant to what’s being discussed. Hell, when I’m happy with a product, I’ll be the first to chime into the thread and share my satisfaction. I have different feelings about Polar. Maybe because it repeatedly gets front page every time Anki/SRS comes up, which isn’t rare. Or maybe it’s just because when I tried to use it to expand my Anki deck with peer reviewed papers, I found it unbearably inconvenient / difficult, -plus- it insists on being yet another privacy-invading cloud offering for a product for which cloud involvement feels forcibly tacked on. Quite disappointing, since this product really solves a problem for me. I guess the combination of “how badly I wanted to like and use this product” + “how disappointing it was in use” + “how frequently it’s on the front page” adds up to seriously being sick of seeing Polar ads.