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Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by Macha on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @08:20PM (#14510956)
Yeah, the two things that really piss me off are:

1. I scroll down, read the article a bit, move to scroll again, and end up clicking an ad that has just popped into existence (Cynical reason: The delay improves their CTR and hence revenue. Less cynical reason: They were too optimistic in how fast their ad would load on my mobile connection).

2. I click your page and it starts playing noise. It doesn't even have to be an ad, a lot of news sites autoplay their videos when I just care about the article.

Both are less about where the ad is and more about how it behaves

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Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by Coincoin on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @10:03PM (#14511348)
3. The modal window is too big which pushes the tiny close button outside the screen and makes it impossible to close.
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Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by bigbugbag on Friday June 09, 2017 @05:06AM (#14520146)
Try using your escape key, disabling script and reloading page, using wallabag[1] to read the page, editing the DOM to remove the popup.

[1]: https://wallabag.org/en and https://wallabag.it/en

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Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by Coincoin on Friday June 09, 2017 @10:58AM (#14521839)
No. I Just go away. This happens mostly on my phone anyway.
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Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by eli on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @08:24PM (#14510969)
Another factor in #1 is advertisers don't want to pay for ad impressions if the ad was never actually viewed (because it's way down the page and the user never scrolled that far).
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