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I think HN is reaching a tipping point with spam on this one.
by don_draper 13y ago
I think HN is reaching a tipping point with spam on this one.
- michaelochurch 13y agoDisagree on spam. I don't think it's high-quality content-- nothing against the idea or writing, but it's one anecdote and I think the conclusion is wrong-- but it can produce high-quality discussion and that's why we actually come here.
- niggler 13y agoYou are rewarded for using Ghostery and other anti-spam measures when reading HN
- Throwadev 13y agoWhat do you mean? Would Ghostery have blocked this post, or the article it links to?
- niggler 13y agoIn my experience, likelihood of spam content is correlated with number of ads or tracking cookies (the indicator number in ghostery). I expect posts with more than 5 tracking cookies/ads to be spam (and yes, techcrunch rings in at 15, and almost all of their content is garbage)
- jrochkind1 13y agoin fact, Ghostery does block the article, for me anyway. Which is odd, one of the few times I've seen Ghostery have the effect of making a site unuseable/unreadable, and possibly the only time i've seen it on a blog.
- w1ntermute 13y agoFor those who want to read the article despite using Ghostery, the tracker you want to allow through is "Adobe Digital Marketing (Omniture)". Or just add it to Pocket and read it there.