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While the essence of the message is fair, there are just way too many ads and moving parts on the page to read it. I could have mistaked it for forbes.com (to
by niggler 14y ago
While the essence of the message is fair, there are just way too many ads and moving parts on the page to read it. I could have mistaked it for forbes.com (to be fair, though, they don't have a big fullpage ad before the content)
I dont begrudge websites that use ads, but in this case it really detracted from readability
- scholia 14y agoReally? This is how it looks on my PC, in Google Chrome.... http://imgur.com/NIQb4rU http://imgur.com/NIQb4rU
- niggler 14y agoThey changed that specific article's rendering. When I and others looked earlier today, it was a real mess. My original comment was near the top when "jpilcher" showed up (based on his responses, it was roughly 1-2 hours after I saw the article) and I suspect he read the comments and changed that specific page. Other articles still show the old format: http://thefinancialbrand.com/28313/cool-vehicle-designs-from-financial-institutions/ http://thefinancialbrand.com/28313/cool-vehicle-designs-from... (Notice the size of the ad on the right side as well as the interstitial ads) http://i.imgur.com/RekSTWf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RekSTWf.jpg
- scholia 14y agoAh, sneaky! This is what it looks like here, at the moment http://imgur.com/tvcjehW http://imgur.com/tvcjehW The layout didn't attract my attention when I read the piece and posted it here. It felt like a fairly ordinary commercial site...
- nhebb 14y agoThat's weird. I'm getting a page with animated gif's on the right side that make the page unreadable. If I had epilepsy, there's a good chance that I'd be walking down the street naked right now.
- niggler 14y agoIt looks like they changed it for a few hours after I made my comment, but it reverted