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If anyone reading this works on Forbes’ web team: Your page hijacking ads and modals begging me to “sign up” are just destroying the reading experience. Please,
by bradhe 7y ago
If anyone reading this works on Forbes’ web team: Your page hijacking ads and modals begging me to “sign up” are just destroying the reading experience. Please, fix your shit before you ask people for money!
- primitivesuave 7y agoI am a bit concerned by how I didn't even notice reading the article through only four exposed lines on the page while blocking out 80% of the space that had been taken over by ads popping in from all sides. It's become so commonplace that I've developed some kind of subconscious process to deal with it.
- quickthrower2 7y agoOh it's horrendous. Slide up notification appears from the bottom, then 1 second later blue IBM ad covers screen (no X button as far as I can tell). Then another popup appears above the IBM ad with an ad. I close the bottom and popup and the IBM goes by itself, and a video to the left starts autoplaying (thankfully muted!). I scroll down and some animated ads dynamically appear on the right, followed by the big blue IBM ad covering the screen again. To the URL bar I march... https://outline.com/djgeH2 https://outline.com/djgeH2
- jessaustin 7y agoAre you really browsing without uBlock Origin? Yikes. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock