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Holy bad user interface Batman! Here's a direct link to the picture. The planet is the blue dot on the bottom left. They removed the light from this star, whic

• gcb0 13y ago
  it's sad to see the kind of Ads science sites have to show.
  • ChuckMcM 13y ago
    space.com is particularly cheesy in this regard. I stopped visiting voluntarily (sometimes I get click jacked there)
    • VladRussian2 13y ago
      Don't blame the mirror :) The ads shown may be the ads placed through exchange where they were targeted based on profile you matched. For example, checking some HDD prices, i see HDD ads everywhere the few days following it.
      • ChuckMcM 13y ago
        That is true of course. I don't dislike advertising, just like I don't dislike paying for dinner. However I see it as a economic thing, rather than charge money for their articles they charge 'eyeballs' (so that the advertiser picks up the tab) and the better the content the more I'll put up with that (case in point watching things on Hulu where you get forced to watch ads) but at some point the 'cost' of the ads, the in your face pop-ups, the mouse over talking heads, the slide on banner, the pop under or over banner, it costs 'more' than its 'worth' for me to read it. I determined after reading space.com a lot how much ad I was willing to put up with in order to read their content, and rather than pirate it (or subvert their intent) I just stopped viewing it allowing them to spend their server resources on showing ads to people for whom its worth it to get to the content.
    • green7ea 13y ago
      I don't see adds on science.com thanks to AddBlock. I'm guessing this is what makes the UI work for fine for me.
      • ryandvm 13y ago
        Ad-blocking on the internet is kind of like recycling. Sure, it doesn't matter if you do it, but if everyone did it we'd all be fucked.
        • omni 13y ago
          Do you mean kind of like the inverse of recycling, or does recycling have some dark secret that I'm blissfully unaware of?
          • nikatwork 13y ago
            There is some conspiracy theory that recycling is actually a lie and is somehow more environmentally harmful than regular garbage. This is based on... well I don't know who comes up with this crazy shit really. Or there's (some) Libertarians who think recycling is anti-free-market. Rand must've hated separating her trash or something.
        • cwp 13y ago
          Well, the Internet would certainly be a very different place if everybody blocked ads. It's hard to predict who would benefit and who would suffer, but "we'd all be fucked" doesn't seem like a likely scenario.
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