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by dang 1y ago
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- 7734128 1y agoWho 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 1y 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 1y agoWho raw-dogs the internet without an adblocker? Have some standards.
- mort96 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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 1y agoThe people making it still worthwhile to post content online.
- mikestew 1y agoPi-hole and ad blocker, and I still repro.
- ceejayoz 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816069
- krupan 1y agoYou should probably ask an AI to read it and summarize it for you.
- lproven 1y agoI see what you did there, and I approve.
- cocomutator 1y agotoday is the day i stopped reading opinion pieces from the technologyreview. not for presenting an opinion i don’t agree with, but for mistaking word soup for an argument.
- boothby 1y agoThere are two competing figures in motion: human intelligence and computer intelligence. Either can win by sufficient reduction of the other.
- oldestofsports 1y agoNot one but TWO cookie consent banners, one with a huge list of radio buttons to disable, then two more banners, and 3 seconds into reading once again an ad blocks the screen. Who the heck tolerates this
- oldestofsports 1y agoTo those who say ”just use an adblocker” - if your local cafe had a group of waiters beating puppies right inside the entrance, would you just wear earplugs and close your eyes? Oh how low humanity has sunk when we accept such garbage.