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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.

 

Reply to: Re:what is that?

    (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.

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