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Who tolerates a website which immediately pushes three overlapping pop-ups in free user's face? Why would anyone subject themselves to so much hatred? Have som
by 7734128 11mo ago
Who tolerates a website which immediately pushes three overlapping pop-ups in free user's face?
Why would anyone subject themselves to so much hatred? Have some standards.
- hagbard_c 11mo agoOnly those who made the mistake of not using a content filter like uBlock Origin or something equally effective. I just visited the site and got neither pop-ups nor ads.
- ceejayoz 11mo agoWho raw-dogs the internet without an adblocker? Have some standards.
- mort96 11mo agoI use uBlock Origin (the full fat version in Firefox, not the lite version). It doesn't help, because the pop-ups aren't ads. There's one asking me if I wanna be spied on, one asking me to subscribe or sign in, and one huge one telling me that there's currently a discount on subscriptions.
- ceejayoz 11mo agoI've got uBlock Origin on Firefox desktop too, and none of those show. Turn on more of the filter lists in the settings - especially the stuff in the "Cookie notices" and "Annoyances" sections.
- erikerikson 11mo agoRumor has it that some people saw the "ads pay for it all" business model and accepted the deal because they wanted the Internet to be sustainable.
- ceejayoz 11mo agoI mean, that's a two-sided deal. "You watch ads, you read content". But that deal has been more and more broken by the ad networks and websites; a lot of sites are unnavigable without an adblocker now. The days of plain text Google AdWords are long, long gone.
- XorNot 11mo agoIf you don't actually buy anything then you're not sponsoring anything. In fact generating ad views and not purchasing things from them reduces the value of ads to the website.
- slg 11mo agoYour logic is built on the common misconception that the only ad that has any value is the last ad you see before purchase.
- Workaccount2 11mo agoThe people making it still worthwhile to post content online.
- mikestew 11mo agoPi-hole and ad blocker, and I still repro.
- ceejayoz 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816069
- krupan 11mo agoYou should probably ask an AI to read it and summarize it for you.
- lproven 11mo agoI see what you did there, and I approve.