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thanks for the interesting read, one amusing thing: I went to the site and "where is the adds?", then I remembered I'm using a add-hardened firefox to view it ;

thanks for the interesting read, one amusing thing: I went to the site and "where is the adds?", then I remembered I'm using a add-hardened firefox to view it ;) Sure enough using safari showed me the horror. Serious question: why do we put up with this as readers?

hotstickyballs 2y ago
Safari has ad blockers now too
- carl_sandland 2y ago
  I keep safari "unblocked" just for this kind of scenario, as sometimes the blocking breaks stuff I want to see that doesn't work otherwise. It's becoming rarer for sure over time. Didn't mean to impinge on safari, it's a great browser that I use for work.
- ffpip 2y ago
  Even Edge has ad blockers to an extent. The only browser that doesn't natively block trackers, or does stuff to reduce the power of adblockers is Chrome. Coincidentally, they are owned by the biggest ad network on earth.
mondobe 2y ago
Lol, the exact same thing happened to me. I was about to leave a very confused comment.
bogwog 2y ago
I had to pull out the ol' ungoogled chromium browser for this and for a moment I thought it was still a joke because of how absurd some of the ads were. One of them was a picture of an empty toilet paper roll holding up a toilet seat with the title "Put a Toilet Paper Roll Under the Toilet Seat at Night, Here's Why", and clicking it took me to a site[1] with a bunch of nonsense life hacks probably written by some AI. Surprisingly, the site itself has no ads, yet it does link to a bunch of scam products. I thought Google vetted their advertisers? Are they just accepting ads from anyone now? 1: https://lifehack.getconsumerchoice.com/ https://lifehack.getconsumerchoice.com/ (proceed at own risk)
- dwallin 2y ago
  Ironically, by linking to it you’ve probably vastly boosted it’s rank on Google.
  - utensil4778 2y ago
    Huh. I wonder how much effort it would take to have a noticeable effect on the AdSense algorithm by sharing select ad links like this?
  - avx56 2y ago
    HN uses rel="nofollow" for links in comments, for this exact reason.

hotstickyballs 2y ago

Safari has ad blockers now too

carl_sandland 2y ago
I keep safari "unblocked" just for this kind of scenario, as sometimes the blocking breaks stuff I want to see that doesn't work otherwise. It's becoming rarer for sure over time. Didn't mean to impinge on safari, it's a great browser that I use for work.
ffpip 2y ago
Even Edge has ad blockers to an extent. The only browser that doesn't natively block trackers, or does stuff to reduce the power of adblockers is Chrome. Coincidentally, they are owned by the biggest ad network on earth.

mondobe 2y ago

Lol, the exact same thing happened to me. I was about to leave a very confused comment.

bogwog 2y ago

I had to pull out the ol' ungoogled chromium browser for this and for a moment I thought it was still a joke because of how absurd some of the ads were. One of them was a picture of an empty toilet paper roll holding up a toilet seat with the title "Put a Toilet Paper Roll Under the Toilet Seat at Night, Here's Why", and clicking it took me to a site[1] with a bunch of nonsense life hacks probably written by some AI. Surprisingly, the site itself has no ads, yet it does link to a bunch of scam products. I thought Google vetted their advertisers? Are they just accepting ads from anyone now? 1: https://lifehack.getconsumerchoice.com/ https://lifehack.getconsumerchoice.com/ (proceed at own risk)

dwallin 2y ago
Ironically, by linking to it you’ve probably vastly boosted it’s rank on Google.
- utensil4778 2y ago
  Huh. I wonder how much effort it would take to have a noticeable effect on the AdSense algorithm by sharing select ad links like this?
- avx56 2y ago
  HN uses rel="nofollow" for links in comments, for this exact reason.