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Not to take potshots at the "other site" but damn.
I had mostly stopped checking it because the comment signal-to-noise ratio had become so bad. But now they're running these giant floating ads that cover half the comment-text so you can't actually read them anyway.
Good Lord, have you seen /. lately?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:38PM
Given the adblock-to-not ratio over there, perhaps few have noticed?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @08:41PM
They aren't blocked with the default lists. Something about it how they aren't actually "ads" because of reasons. Don't care to enough to actually look it up on lanik.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:36PM
Don't show up for me on uBlock Origin (default settings even). I am seeing their "top deals" one, but that appears to collapse properly.
No, I don't care to turn it off and have another look.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:57PM
Weird. I'm on uBO too and see ads inside a div with id="stackcommerce-adwrap" another with the another div of class="stackcommerce-widget scw-horizontal col4" with ads inside them. Neither are hidden or collapsed. Oh well, at least they wouldn't malware me with their own deals; they aren't that desperate yet.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday February 24 2017, @09:19AM
Never seen it myself. And I'm just running AdBlock Plus.
The only ads I've seen are the Slashdot Deals and the pair of brown bordered ads that usually shows up about a third and two-thirds down the screen. Oh yeah, and a sponsored content by Taboola just above the Slashdot deals at the bottom. Pretty easy to ignore.
No floaters, videos or pop-ups on default setting.
I'll have to give Ublock a go, AdBlock isn't nearly as good as it used to be, I've just been too lazy to do anything about it since it still mostly works. I really don't mind a handful of static ads, but floaters, pop-ups, and autoplays are never welcome.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @11:35PM
With CSS and Javascript disabled it's perfectly readable for me. Still, I usually read it through http://alterslash.org/ [alterslash.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @03:09AM
I deleted my account and have not posted there since this site was started, but I check alterslash often.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Friday February 17 2017, @04:41PM
I deleted my account
How did you do that?
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday February 17 2017, @10:35PM
Call Timothy a "Jew" in the discussions a few times. Actually, that's not you deleting it, that's them deleting it for you.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @08:17PM
When /. changed ownership, they sent out a notification email about the change in conditions. I emailed Slashdot and told them to remove everything and never contact me. IIRC I checked to see if I could login about a month later and it didn't work.
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(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday February 18 2017, @08:34PM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @03:35PM
This is why adblock is stupid. The people who continue to frequent that site don't realize that it's infected with malware. In fact it tries to download a firefox patch js to my machine once or twice a day.