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I would feel a lot better about Slate (and everyone else) if they didn't run those "SPONSORED FROM AROUND THE WEB" pseudo-article links at the bottom of each pa

I would feel a lot better about Slate (and everyone else) if they didn't run those "SPONSORED FROM AROUND THE WEB" pseudo-article links at the bottom of each page with this exact same kind of manipulative ads in them. Come on Slate. You think better of your audience than this, right?

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brandnewlow 13y ago
They are a plague run by publishers to try to boost their own traffic and revenue via arbitrage. I complained to the Slate folks about the image as running under their articles these day. Those are really awful.
- gee_totes 13y ago
  Plague? That depends on what you click on. Since I can't get rid of them (even with Adblock), I've trained those ad tracking/interest algorithms to add a "scroll down for boobs" feature to their client websites.
  - stephengillie 13y ago
    Add in the adblocking Hosts file (and maybe Ghostery) on top of Adblock to really get rid of them. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
eli 13y ago
That's Outbrain: http://www.outbrain.com/engage/ http://www.outbrain.com/engage/ In theory the ads are targeted to the content of the site, but I agree that they're often pretty crummy.
- ig1 13y ago
  As far as I can tell, that's not Outbrain, Outbrain is the "More from Slate" / "From Around the Web" section. The "SPONSORED FROM AROUND THE WEB" section appears to be a standard ad panel from Content.ad.
  - eli 13y ago
    You're right! I thought "From Around the Web" was what we were talking about, but of course there are multiple similar blocks of paid links.
ibudiallo 13y ago
One weird trick that conquered the internet. It looks like it worked, cause I clicked and read the article only to find out that it is exactly what I thought in the first place. But still I spent a good 10 minutes on it.
valgaze 13y ago
Look at article #3: http://snag.gy/K0uB5.jpg http://snag.gy/K0uB5.jpg
wutbrodo 13y ago
A couple of years ago I read an NBC article[1] about low-quality, spammy ads on the Web. The article was decidedly negative about them....and yet (at least at the time) the page was full of them: "Billionaire prepares for financial ruin" etc, all the AdBlade/Taboola-type shit. It was pretty ridiculous, given that the tone of the article from the very beginning was positively railing against low-quality ads. [1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32676456/ns/business-the_big_money/t/love-god-i-dont-want-whiter-teeth/ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32676456/ns/business-the_big_money...

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brandnewlow 13y ago

They are a plague run by publishers to try to boost their own traffic and revenue via arbitrage. I complained to the Slate folks about the image as running under their articles these day. Those are really awful.

gee_totes 13y ago
Plague? That depends on what you click on. Since I can't get rid of them (even with Adblock), I've trained those ad tracking/interest algorithms to add a "scroll down for boobs" feature to their client websites.
- stephengillie 13y ago
  Add in the adblocking Hosts file (and maybe Ghostery) on top of Adblock to really get rid of them. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

eli 13y ago

That's Outbrain: http://www.outbrain.com/engage/ http://www.outbrain.com/engage/ In theory the ads are targeted to the content of the site, but I agree that they're often pretty crummy.

ig1 13y ago
As far as I can tell, that's not Outbrain, Outbrain is the "More from Slate" / "From Around the Web" section. The "SPONSORED FROM AROUND THE WEB" section appears to be a standard ad panel from Content.ad.
- eli 13y ago
  You're right! I thought "From Around the Web" was what we were talking about, but of course there are multiple similar blocks of paid links.

ibudiallo 13y ago

One weird trick that conquered the internet. It looks like it worked, cause I clicked and read the article only to find out that it is exactly what I thought in the first place. But still I spent a good 10 minutes on it.

valgaze 13y ago

Look at article #3: http://snag.gy/K0uB5.jpg http://snag.gy/K0uB5.jpg

wutbrodo 13y ago

A couple of years ago I read an NBC article[1] about low-quality, spammy ads on the Web. The article was decidedly negative about them....and yet (at least at the time) the page was full of them: "Billionaire prepares for financial ruin" etc, all the AdBlade/Taboola-type shit. It was pretty ridiculous, given that the tone of the article from the very beginning was positively railing against low-quality ads. [1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32676456/ns/business-the_big_money/t/love-god-i-dont-want-whiter-teeth/ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32676456/ns/business-the_big_money...