Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by SwellJoe on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:03PM (#11301031)

I don't mind them, normally, but in the case of Wired their detection is broken for uBlock. It continues to detect the blocker as on, even once disabled. So, reading Wired is now impossible for me, even if I accept their ads (which, I tend to be fine with for companies I trust not to be too invasive, and not to have ads that make noise or start video without warning).

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by ar0 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:27PM (#11301783)

Ghostery counts 27 trackers for me on this single Wired article, 19 of which are classified as "Advertising". I would not call this "not to be too invasive".

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by SwellJoe on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:32PM (#11301810)

I didn't look too deeply, but yeah, that's ridiculous. I don't need any Wired article that much.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by alexschleber on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:53PM (#11302101)

Exactly. The whole piece is < 900 words, mentions about 4 meaningful pieces of info (current Slack stats, names of 3 OSS competitors and a line or three about their rationales, history, 1-2 added features). Hardly "must-read" territory.

For those ~15 lines of unwrapped text, the whole page is 1900 lines in total.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by moonshinefe on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:09AM (#11302954)

Wired is 80% garbage articles and intrusive ads / trackers these days. I don't recommend it.

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