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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 Thursday February 16 2017, @08:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @08:25PM (#467942)

    RequestPolicy? I wonder why you use that rather than uMatrix or uBO in "hard mode." Plus, I thought they were trying to push people into using RequestPolicy Continued anyway, as the original is unmaintained.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 16 2017, @10:25PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 16 2017, @10:25PM (#467992) Homepage Journal

    Only because I'm used to it, and it's been saved to hard disk. It works well. I suppose that I should look at alternatives, but I'm comfortable with it for now.

    --
    Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @09:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @09:28AM (#468150)

    Adblockers are an _enabler_ for more intrusive ads. When the tech-savvy don't see them, the audience that still sees them gets filtered to those who indeed swallow that junk so the sites don't get to pay a price for that.

    Also note the following: even with an adblocker you are supporting the site when visiting it. Not only are adblockers incapable of recognizing ads masqueragding as content, but even if they were, you'd still be yourself part of its virality, mindshare and content.