Re:How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Compa...
by chadlavi on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:34PM
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That article page had a giant whiskey advertisement in the middle of it for me. I think I'd probably prefer to read about a topic someone was paid to write about than have intrusive ads I don't care about shown to me in the middle of otherwise interesting content.
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Re:How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Compa...
by DonHopkins on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:59PM
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Wow, that whisky ad totally fooled me. I though it was part of the article, an illustration of a typical crass product placement. I let my defenses down for one moment, and now I'm already halfway through a bottle of whisky!
Re:How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Compa...
by dhimes on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:21PM
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It should have been a "Your Product Here!" placeholder.
Re:How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Compa...
by yann63 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:01AM
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I hit back as soon as I saw the top of this add. There was more below? :-/
Re:How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Compa...
by dredmorbius on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:24AM
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I have that response to ads and the scumslop (Taboola / Outbrain) crud that shows up on pages. I've got adblockers, and block the domains as well.
Was reading a story on how the media undermine itself with a bunch of examples, and even re-reading the article and knowing these are part of the story, my response is to click to block, or assume that I've reached the end of the article, when I see that stuff. It's just toxic.
Good piece though. Sean Blanda, "Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore", Jan 2017:
https://medium.com/@SeanBlanda/medium-and-the-reason-you-can...