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That site is pretty painful to visit. Is it someone’s business model to submit stuff like this to hacker news? Edit: I mean it’s called BigThink; does the flas
by ajdegol 7y ago
That site is pretty painful to visit. Is it someone’s business model to submit stuff like this to hacker news?
Edit: I mean it’s called BigThink; does the flashing adverts (on mobile) between every sentence not make that name a little ironic?
- Tenoke 7y agoAlso clicking on the image when it said 'click on image to zoom' led me to multiple ad sites.
- rendall 7y agoBigThink inspired me to find out if it's possible to exclude results from Google search results. It's not. At least, not through Google. With DuckDuckGo, it's possible by including `-site:bigthink.com` in the search query
- onorton 7y agoYou can exclude search terms on google with a "-" prefix including websites e.g. "-twitter" "-bigthink"
- miahi 7y agoThe same -site:bigthink.com flag works on Google searches.
- aendruk 7y agoGoogle used to provide a way to do this, but removed it (see killedbygoogle #674) around the same time they dropped "don't be evil".
- nscalf 7y agoYou should try out the brave browser. Using it on my laptop, I actually thought this was a fine site until I saw the comments, that's how effective it is at blocking some of these anti-consumer patterns.
- IanSanders 7y agoHow does it compare to ublock?
- mirimir 7y agoHuh. I was saved from the ads, but the XSS to Stripe creeps me. Maybe it's an exploit, checking whether I have an account, or am logged in. Or maybe not. But still creepy.