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Ask HN: Mods: block posts of websites that have heavy/annoying ads

• crecker 5y ago
  I do not know how to better phrase the title. If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know and I'll try to edit. My proposal is that Hacker News mods should block any posts that involves any websites with heavy and annoying ads. HN represents for the average "marketing" person a good source for spamming some nice articles but with annoying ads.
• MattGaiser 5y ago
  No. If you don't like ads use an Adblocker. Let's not throw away interesting content because it shares space with ads.
  • crecker 5y ago
    Annoying/heavy advertisement !== any Ads
• aqaq2 5y ago
• fivelessminutes 5y ago
  You should use a dns blackhole (pihole type approach) as well as browser privacy extensions anyway. Techcrunch has a redirect to guce.advertising.com, which is blackholed... so I can't read their content directly whether it's on hn or not. If I specifically want to read it, archive.is has it without ads. That means they get punished either way by losing hits, which is the only pressure they care about.