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try loading this page on mobile 3g/throttled lte. blank screen for a few seconds. text loads, some kind of pop up I scroll past and read about 2 paragraphs, whe

by rjeli 7y ago

try loading this page on mobile 3g/throttled lte. blank screen for a few seconds. text loads, some kind of pop up I scroll past and read about 2 paragraphs, when the text disappears, never to return again.

bluedino 7y ago
Tom's was a good site...in the late 1990's. They were purchased somewhere in the 200's and turned to crap quickly. Somehow they are owned by the same parent as Anandtech, which has gone downhill, is still readable. It's not total spam like Toms, even if I miss their in-depth Mac articles.
gruez 7y ago
And if you're on desktop, you get an autoplay video once you get to the bottom. If you try scroll off, it turns into a sticky element.
- giancarlostoro 7y ago
  I miss the annoying picture flashing ads of the 2000s. The amount of crapware (also read ads) on websites nowadays is ridiculous.
progval 7y ago
Disable Javascript, and the content is displayed instantly without a popup.
K0SM0S 7y ago
Honestly the most disheartening about that company was the half-baked NVIDIA shilling[1], that was called right away by the whole technical community[2]. I wouldn't get on my high horses about that, it's commonplace nowadays that former commercial media outlets have become "infomercial" businesses, essentially marketing agencies disguised as news/information outlets. The primary drive being that consumers of media don't bring enough revenue, whereas announcers and brands do, often shadily in this "new media" environment (undisclosed sponsorships, etc). What you describe is, as I see it, just the rotten tip of Tom's iceberg. Like you — and I know it may be biased — I tend to "identify" potential "red flags" just this way: rotten website (technically, cue Js) probably means shady business behind, in my book. Otherwise, why would you disingenuously break UX like that? Forbes comes to mind as an offender, and so many other formerly big names of the press. Just gone, in spirit and content, as of this century. Worth noting afaik, Tom himself (the founder) sold and left a long time ago now (probably chilling on some tropical beach with his spouse and kids? I wish him so). [1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-money,37689.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-... [2]: one (funny) rebuke by GamersNexus, a trustworthy technical media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7pxJXBBn8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7pxJXBBn8
BubRoss 7y ago
All these big sites were basically unreadable without lots of adblocking in my experience. I wouldn't attempt to look at anything until I set up a pi hole which was a huge game changer.

by rjeli 7y ago

bluedino 7y ago

Tom's was a good site...in the late 1990's. They were purchased somewhere in the 200's and turned to crap quickly. Somehow they are owned by the same parent as Anandtech, which has gone downhill, is still readable. It's not total spam like Toms, even if I miss their in-depth Mac articles.

gruez 7y ago

And if you're on desktop, you get an autoplay video once you get to the bottom. If you try scroll off, it turns into a sticky element.

giancarlostoro 7y ago
I miss the annoying picture flashing ads of the 2000s. The amount of crapware (also read ads) on websites nowadays is ridiculous.

progval 7y ago

Disable Javascript, and the content is displayed instantly without a popup.

K0SM0S 7y ago

Honestly the most disheartening about that company was the half-baked NVIDIA shilling[1], that was called right away by the whole technical community[2]. I wouldn't get on my high horses about that, it's commonplace nowadays that former commercial media outlets have become "infomercial" businesses, essentially marketing agencies disguised as news/information outlets. The primary drive being that consumers of media don't bring enough revenue, whereas announcers and brands do, often shadily in this "new media" environment (undisclosed sponsorships, etc). What you describe is, as I see it, just the rotten tip of Tom's iceberg. Like you — and I know it may be biased — I tend to "identify" potential "red flags" just this way: rotten website (technically, cue Js) probably means shady business behind, in my book. Otherwise, why would you disingenuously break UX like that? Forbes comes to mind as an offender, and so many other formerly big names of the press. Just gone, in spirit and content, as of this century. Worth noting afaik, Tom himself (the founder) sold and left a long time ago now (probably chilling on some tropical beach with his spouse and kids? I wish him so). [1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-money,37689.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-... [2]: one (funny) rebuke by GamersNexus, a trustworthy technical media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7pxJXBBn8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7pxJXBBn8

BubRoss 7y ago

All these big sites were basically unreadable without lots of adblocking in my experience. I wouldn't attempt to look at anything until I set up a pi hole which was a huge game changer.