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This website is overloaded with adds. It almost feels like a scam. Based on the fact that almost all other comments are not talking about it, I guess at least o

This website is overloaded with adds. It almost feels like a scam. Based on the fact that almost all other comments are not talking about it, I guess at least one of the following hypotheses is true (if not all of them): - most people here use an efficient addblocker - The website changed since its first appearance on the first page (maximize revenue?) - some comments are sponsored - on mobile it feels overwhelming but on desktops it's more bearable

reaperducer 5y ago
Strangely, I see no ads, and I don't use any ad blockers. Maybe it only shows ads to people in certain regions?
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mlatu 5y ago
> overloaded ? got curious enough to turn off my adblocker: i was presented with TWO ads on desktop i think you overloaded the term overloaded. though they are huge on mobile.. and appear to be subleased or something. also there appears to be another ad element below the "(C)" line on mobile which is missing on desktop
- mynameisvlad 5y ago
  There also seems to be a modal ad on hover out. Hadn't seen that used before for ads.
rootbear 5y ago
I gave up as soon as I realized that the form at the top was an ad and not part of the page. What a mess!
jason-phillips 5y ago
Brave browser ftw
toyg 5y ago
> - most people here use an efficient addblocker Yup. I was like, "this is a very oldschool site, super-essential, bare styling..." I guess all that whitespace is covered in ads for you, lol.
- wsinks 5y ago
  ha! I don't use an adblocker, and when I first loaded this page, it looked great! and then I quickly quit out and came to the comments instead of using it. And then I saw this, and went back... Oh. I just wasn't on the page long enough to see just how many ads were loaded, wow!!
  - BuildTheRobots 5y ago
    You make not using an adblocker seem like an active choice - can I ask why?
    - stubish 5y ago
      The continual attention loss dealing with ads is certainly more than the once-per-install job of turning on an adblocker. I'm surprised it isn't mandated in corporate environments to recover attention loss of employees.
Nashooo 5y ago
It also tried to autocomplete CC data.. Feels like a scam.
- nickcw 5y ago
  It did that for me too. I can't see why though when looking at the HTML. <form name="Cerca" method="get" action="index.php"> <input type="text" name="sur" size="8"> <input type="submit" name="s" value="Search"> </form> Maybe it is a bug in Chrome.
- weatherlight 5y ago
  same tried to autocomplete CC data as well. (was using chrome)
marcodiego 5y ago
I haven't seen any ad. Thanks adblockers!
freeflight 5y ago
This made me curious, so I reloaded the site without uBlock origin, and for the most part looks the same; There is one ad at the top, one at the bottom, and a cookie info style ad banner scrolling with the page, 3 ads in total. That's a rather humane amount and the only one that's really intrusive is the one all the way on the top, the scrolling banner can even be minimized to remove it, which leaves a total of 2 ads on the site, at least for me on Chrome.
- zdragnar 5y ago
  On android chrome, I'm seeing 9 distinct ads just on the front page. Inner pages (specific countries) don't have quite so many.
  - freeflight 5y ago
    Wow, that's a lot! Where are those extra ads located? Gave it a try on my iPhone's Safari; The same 3 ads like on desktop Chrome, but there's two extra ones all the way at the bottom of the page.
- xboxnolifes 5y ago
  This is the same for me. I only get the top and bottom banner ads that I was used to seeing 10+ years ago. Still too big, but they don't make the site unusable.
sjmm1989 5y ago
I've accepted that the internet wants my data and have been using Brave for a few years now. Seems like a fair compromise, and their adblocking is pretty decent, even if I get to put up with their little pop ups now and then for BAT tokens. I have it set to maximum ad rate, and just ignore them mostly. They are sort of intrusive, but also not really. Depends on what you are doing. I've had them pop up in the middle of working on some word file or excel sheet; but I also get my discord notifications the same way as well... They don't interrupt gameplay though... usually? Depends on if you have a browser open while playing something in windowed mode I think. At that point you might get one or two popping through due to the browser being open. That sort of thing. Again, seems like a fair compromise to me. People onboard with BAT get paid one way or the other, and I get to deal with less ads overall. (Seriously, it's a chasm of epic proportions the comparison between before and after.) Youtube works fine, most websites work fine, and if ever one doesn't want to play nice; you either find something else or just turn off Brave shield temporarily. I've had to do this from time to time with banking for instance, since it was blocking something related to the banks log in process. lol. So yeah, it's not perfect by any means. But it's a far cry better than the others so far in my opinion. And for those who may want to reply with something about how X browser is worse or better than Brave; that's nice but honestly at this point I don't really care anymore. I have Firefox on standby for those few situations where chromium based browsers just don't want to work, and guess what, that's basically all of them now; Brave included. So far, this combo has fared me pretty well. If I could get something that does what Brave does even better without the crypto stuff included, I probably would use it instead. But that's probably going to end up being a heavily modified version of Firefox or Chromium somehow; and thus my earlier point about being 'good enough'.
- temp0826 5y ago
  There aren't enough tokens in the world to make me accept what you describe about brave. Always surprised when I read HNers actually using it. It just sounds really scummy what they do to me.
  - sjmm1989 5y ago
pooper 5y ago
I flagged this submission and recommend this post be deleted and the submitter penalized.
- mynameisvlad 5y ago
  Is there a rule about not posting submissions with ads? If so, most news sites would likely be heavily penalized. In other words, what rules exactly do you think this post violated, and why should the submitter be penalized? For posting a site with ads?
- utopcell 5y ago
  same here
- ChrisRR 5y ago
  Why? Sites need ads to keep running. There's only two fixed ads and one popup
  - pooper 5y ago
    I can't reproduce it anymore however when I last went there it somehow took me to one of those shady background check websites. I, too, can post spam websites if we want to go down that road
stronglikedan 5y ago
> overloaded with adds Overloaded? There's two ads per page, and occasionally one when I click a map, and they're not even in the way.

reaperducer 5y ago

Strangely, I see no ads, and I don't use any ad blockers. Maybe it only shows ads to people in certain regions?

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mlatu 5y ago

> overloaded ? got curious enough to turn off my adblocker: i was presented with TWO ads on desktop i think you overloaded the term overloaded. though they are huge on mobile.. and appear to be subleased or something. also there appears to be another ad element below the "(C)" line on mobile which is missing on desktop

mynameisvlad 5y ago
There also seems to be a modal ad on hover out. Hadn't seen that used before for ads.

rootbear 5y ago

I gave up as soon as I realized that the form at the top was an ad and not part of the page. What a mess!

jason-phillips 5y ago

Brave browser ftw

toyg 5y ago

> - most people here use an efficient addblocker Yup. I was like, "this is a very oldschool site, super-essential, bare styling..." I guess all that whitespace is covered in ads for you, lol.

wsinks 5y ago
ha! I don't use an adblocker, and when I first loaded this page, it looked great! and then I quickly quit out and came to the comments instead of using it. And then I saw this, and went back... Oh. I just wasn't on the page long enough to see just how many ads were loaded, wow!!
- BuildTheRobots 5y ago
  You make not using an adblocker seem like an active choice - can I ask why?
  - stubish 5y ago
    The continual attention loss dealing with ads is certainly more than the once-per-install job of turning on an adblocker. I'm surprised it isn't mandated in corporate environments to recover attention loss of employees.

Nashooo 5y ago

It also tried to autocomplete CC data.. Feels like a scam.

nickcw 5y ago
It did that for me too. I can't see why though when looking at the HTML. <form name="Cerca" method="get" action="index.php"> <input type="text" name="sur" size="8"> <input type="submit" name="s" value="Search"> </form> Maybe it is a bug in Chrome.
weatherlight 5y ago
same tried to autocomplete CC data as well. (was using chrome)

marcodiego 5y ago

I haven't seen any ad. Thanks adblockers!

freeflight 5y ago

This made me curious, so I reloaded the site without uBlock origin, and for the most part looks the same; There is one ad at the top, one at the bottom, and a cookie info style ad banner scrolling with the page, 3 ads in total. That's a rather humane amount and the only one that's really intrusive is the one all the way on the top, the scrolling banner can even be minimized to remove it, which leaves a total of 2 ads on the site, at least for me on Chrome.

zdragnar 5y ago
On android chrome, I'm seeing 9 distinct ads just on the front page. Inner pages (specific countries) don't have quite so many.
- freeflight 5y ago
  Wow, that's a lot! Where are those extra ads located? Gave it a try on my iPhone's Safari; The same 3 ads like on desktop Chrome, but there's two extra ones all the way at the bottom of the page.
xboxnolifes 5y ago
This is the same for me. I only get the top and bottom banner ads that I was used to seeing 10+ years ago. Still too big, but they don't make the site unusable.

sjmm1989 5y ago

I've accepted that the internet wants my data and have been using Brave for a few years now. Seems like a fair compromise, and their adblocking is pretty decent, even if I get to put up with their little pop ups now and then for BAT tokens. I have it set to maximum ad rate, and just ignore them mostly. They are sort of intrusive, but also not really. Depends on what you are doing. I've had them pop up in the middle of working on some word file or excel sheet; but I also get my discord notifications the same way as well... They don't interrupt gameplay though... usually? Depends on if you have a browser open while playing something in windowed mode I think. At that point you might get one or two popping through due to the browser being open. That sort of thing. Again, seems like a fair compromise to me. People onboard with BAT get paid one way or the other, and I get to deal with less ads overall. (Seriously, it's a chasm of epic proportions the comparison between before and after.) Youtube works fine, most websites work fine, and if ever one doesn't want to play nice; you either find something else or just turn off Brave shield temporarily. I've had to do this from time to time with banking for instance, since it was blocking something related to the banks log in process. lol. So yeah, it's not perfect by any means. But it's a far cry better than the others so far in my opinion. And for those who may want to reply with something about how X browser is worse or better than Brave; that's nice but honestly at this point I don't really care anymore. I have Firefox on standby for those few situations where chromium based browsers just don't want to work, and guess what, that's basically all of them now; Brave included. So far, this combo has fared me pretty well. If I could get something that does what Brave does even better without the crypto stuff included, I probably would use it instead. But that's probably going to end up being a heavily modified version of Firefox or Chromium somehow; and thus my earlier point about being 'good enough'.

temp0826 5y ago
There aren't enough tokens in the world to make me accept what you describe about brave. Always surprised when I read HNers actually using it. It just sounds really scummy what they do to me.
- sjmm1989 5y ago

pooper 5y ago

I flagged this submission and recommend this post be deleted and the submitter penalized.

mynameisvlad 5y ago
Is there a rule about not posting submissions with ads? If so, most news sites would likely be heavily penalized. In other words, what rules exactly do you think this post violated, and why should the submitter be penalized? For posting a site with ads?
utopcell 5y ago
same here
ChrisRR 5y ago
Why? Sites need ads to keep running. There's only two fixed ads and one popup
- pooper 5y ago
  I can't reproduce it anymore however when I last went there it somehow took me to one of those shady background check websites. I, too, can post spam websites if we want to go down that road

stronglikedan 5y ago

> overloaded with adds Overloaded? There's two ads per page, and occasionally one when I click a map, and they're not even in the way.