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Good Lord, have you seen /. lately?

Journal by DeathMonkey

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @08:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @08:41PM (#467586)

    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

    by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:36PM (#467606)

    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.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:57PM (#467613)

      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

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Friday February 24 2017, @09:19AM (#471045)

      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.

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