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Let me take this opportunity to say: Thanks YC for keeping HN ad-free! So even when I occasionally read it from a browser w/o an ad-blocker installed, I still
by cies 12y ago
Let me take this opportunity to say: Thanks YC for keeping HN ad-free!
So even when I occasionally read it from a browser w/o an ad-blocker installed, I still enjoy the content in peace.
- samsolomon 12y agoI don't think this is entirely true. Y-Combinator uses Hacker News as a vehicle to attract the best technology talent in the world and display job openings to that talent. I love HN and have no issues with YC doing that, but let's not pretend that it is entirely altruistic.
- mikecsh 12y agoAd-free != altruistic
- icebraining 12y agoBut it's not ad-free, the ads[1] just blend in better. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
- cies 12y agoGood point :)
- _delirium 12y agoHN does have ads, just not a lot of them. Once or twice a day there's a recruiting ad for a YC firm inserted among the submitted stories. Doesn't have comments or upvote/flag buttons, and is just inserted between the regular stories according to some algorithm. Similar format to the way Twitter displays ads inserted among tweets that look like a tweet, except YC only makes the space available to companies in its incubator, rather than selling it.
- MrMan 12y agohN is an advertisement / product-placement.
- castratikron 12y agoIf I ever come across a page with a lot of ads I usually just open it up in links/lynx.