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Holy shit. Forbes is an absolute cesspool of a website. There are about three paragraphs of text, and then I have to pony up another ad impression by clicking

by h2s 14y ago

Holy shit. Forbes is an absolute cesspool of a website. There are about three paragraphs of text, and then I have to pony up another ad impression by clicking through to the next page in order to keep reading. All the while, two enormous fixed nav bars follow my every move at both the top and the bottom of the page. Meanwhile a veritable flotilla of fixed-position "social icons" on the left beg me to help Forbes advertise their content. And to the right of the article? Adverts as far as the eye can see. Even within that center column, the content is occasionally interrupted with links to other unrelated content. And below the article text itself are a bunched of "Sponsored Content You Might Like" links doing their very best to look similar to "Related Stories". What's going on here? Is this what it takes for Forbes to turn a profit?

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tiziano88 14y ago
At least the mobile version looks kind of Ok, only a small banner at the bottom, though the pagination is most definitely annoying, especially because it prevents Pocket from correctly extracting the text from the article.
tzs 14y ago
Their print links[1] are pretty good though. Normally, I object to linking to print pages because they usually are formatted in a way that makes them unreadable (e.g., very tiny font and very wide columns), and often provide no way to reasonably find the non-print version if you want to look for things like comments and related articles. However, the Forbes print link uses a reasonable font and a reasonable column width, and has at the bottom a link to the non-print page. (It does invoke a print dialog, which is a bit annoying). [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2013/01/22/fasten-your-seatbelts-googles-driverless-car-is-worth-trillions/print/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2013/01/22/fasten-your...
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tiziano88 14y ago

At least the mobile version looks kind of Ok, only a small banner at the bottom, though the pagination is most definitely annoying, especially because it prevents Pocket from correctly extracting the text from the article.

tzs 14y ago

Their print links[1] are pretty good though. Normally, I object to linking to print pages because they usually are formatted in a way that makes them unreadable (e.g., very tiny font and very wide columns), and often provide no way to reasonably find the non-print version if you want to look for things like comments and related articles. However, the Forbes print link uses a reasonable font and a reasonable column width, and has at the bottom a link to the non-print page. (It does invoke a print dialog, which is a bit annoying). [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2013/01/22/fasten-your-seatbelts-googles-driverless-car-is-worth-trillions/print/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2013/01/22/fasten-your...

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