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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: 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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