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Does anyone else become infuriated when they visit forbes.com?

over 6 years ago from Thomas Rawcliffe, Designer & Developer of stuff for people

  • Thomas RawcliffeThomas Rawcliffe, over 6 years ago

    I could not agree more. It seems that over the past couple of months sites have amped up their advertising.

    I get it, but it's executed so poorly.

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    • Cory DymondCory Dymond, over 6 years ago

      I get it, but it's executed so poorly.

      Exactly.

      The reason ad blockers exist isn't because I don't want you to serve ads to me. I'm actually pretty cool with ads. I'm not an idiot. I know a business like Forbes can't pay people to write good content if they aren't making ad money. The reason I have an ad blocker is because your ads, like the flash ads of yore, are a fucking flesh eating virus taking over the entire page.

      I can't get it to serve the ad it originally did when I first visited the page, but the actual content of that article was seriously about 30% of the screen area. Even with the slightly less intrusive ads it's loading now, the content is 41% of the available screen area. That is fucking INSANE.

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