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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 16 2017, @03:25AM
Opened the front page, and saw nothing. I scrolled down, about 1/2 down the page, there is a little green box, labeled "sponsored content" with a green "download" button below and to the right of it.
That's it!
uBlock origin and RequestPolicy seem to have /. adverts well in hand.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @08:25PM
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
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 Thursday February 16 2017, @11:43PM
FYI, here is your running clock for Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firefox-57-compatibility-milestones/ [mozilla.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @01:36AM
Never tell someone they shall be forced to change!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @09:28AM
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.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 19 2017, @11:25PM
Good! That means more malvertising!! More jobs forever for techies!!! Jooooooooooooobbbbbvzzz
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(Score: 2, Informative) by RedIsNotGreen on Friday February 17 2017, @09:17AM
Actually, I haven't. SN is more Slashdot than slashdot.org for me now, able to satisfy that craving much better than the green site. And with the smaller crowd and lower comment numbers, SN is pretty close to to the original experience. Happy 3rd, SoylentNews!
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Friday February 17 2017, @08:07PM
/.'s 'new' ISP is so horrible that for about half the day it won't resolve more than once an hour so I rarely check.
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(Score: 2) by drussell on Monday February 27 2017, @05:43PM
Yeah, I couldn't care less what happens to the green site... It has been dead to me since SN opened and I will never log in there again. Good riddance! I had wished for a return to the real /. for years and years and that is exactly what SN is! Kudos!!
Long live SN!