The advertising on redorbit.com (desktop site) is utterly preposterous- in terms of the quantity, quality, and repetition, and the relentless popups. I usually get annoyed when HN comments devolve into people discussing the page or the site rather than the contents of the story, but this is just absurd.
I would normally assume that a site that looks like this has to be a domain squatter's autogenerated site, or some sort of honeypot for distributing malware.
Or maybe I'm not getting the same experience everyone else is? If this is what it looks like to everyone, that's grounds for HN blacklisting redorbit.com links. I hope this is a screwup and not what the site owners are going for.
What I'm seeing in this link: every image and every paragraph is followed by the same Teleflora banner ad that scrolls open when you scroll past that image or paragraph. At some point an animated Revlon ad also appears which expands to fill the entire page. The sidebar and bottom of just about every page is consumed by ginormous BS "Trending now!" links to "25 celebrities you didn't know posed topless!" and "The weight loss trick that they don't want you to know!" articles on other equally disreputable sites. The page for this article looks like satire, it's so ridiculous and seedy and invasive. I wanted to read the article, I really did.
No. But any site that is willing to go to that length to compromise their content (for people who don't use ad blockers) clearly doesn't value their content or the people who read it. That's the message it sends.
Mobile Android Firefox with uBlock Origin it's not bad, other than that the font's too small (10" tablet). With Firefox's Reader Mode (which I engage for virtually all text content, and very much wish were the default), it's fine.
Not dismissing your experience at all (I'm quite sensitive to annoying sites). Just noting that it's possible to improve on it markedly.
Beyond being annoying in the extreme, this surely must run afoul of the advertising source's rules. I couldn't even finish reading the page because the ads kept popping up and distracting me!
I would normally assume that a site that looks like this has to be a domain squatter's autogenerated site, or some sort of honeypot for distributing malware.
Or maybe I'm not getting the same experience everyone else is? If this is what it looks like to everyone, that's grounds for HN blacklisting redorbit.com links. I hope this is a screwup and not what the site owners are going for.