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Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by pbreit on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:45AM (#14511957)
I ran into this dreck yesterday: https://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal...

If anyone can find the actual article, let me know.

Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by 801699 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:41AM (#14512365)
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by Twisell on Thursday June 08, 2017 @01:21AM (#14512081)
This is very funny but at the same time it hurt my butt that I had to provide them ad revenue by watching this mess...
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by bartread on Thursday June 08, 2017 @01:34AM (#14512126)
Indeed: inc.com are blocked from my facebook feed and exist on a sort of mental blacklist of sites I ordinarily never visit due to their terrible user experience and vacuous content. Still, a great example in this instance.
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by whazor on Thursday June 08, 2017 @06:11AM (#14513089)
In their defense, many people only read the title anyway.
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by bartread on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:00AM (#14514212)
True, but I'm not sure that's a defence when it may be because they can't even find the article content amongst all the other garbage on the page.
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by diminish on Thursday June 08, 2017 @04:29AM (#14512759)
Btw, where's the article, I did my best to solve the puzzle but can't find it.
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by bartread on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:06AM (#14514244)
Indeed: the Joel Spolsky piece just isn't there, but if you scroll about half a mile down you find a piece about James Comey. Disabling uBlock makes no difference so it's clearly not about having an ad-blocker enabled. Terrible website.
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by wingerlang on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:03AM (#14513268)
Is there an article? I couldn't find it, maybe the page is outdated (2009) and it's a bug?
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by arximboldi on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:16AM (#14513316)
Me too... maybe the ad blocker blocked it? Not a loss.
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by wingerlang on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:40AM (#14513390)
I turned off mine, still didn't find it.
Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by bartread on Thursday June 08, 2017 @09:59AM (#14514206)
<strikethrough>It's there: you just have to scroll down and down and down, far further than any normal human being would possibly think is reasonable.</strikethrough>

Nope, you're right: I actually tried to read it properly and the article content bears no relation to the title at the top of the page, which is just a title. That's with or without ad blocker enabled. Incidentally without uBlock enabled the page is slower than hell to load.

Re:The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques by dhimes on Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:59AM (#14513826)
+1 made me click