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A comment on The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles.

Re:The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles by zyxwvu on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:15PM (#17427920)
Why has it become acceptable to place ads in-between the text of an article (mobile at least)? I counted no less than 4 ads within the article. They almost always bug my browser out when they're loading while I'm reading through the article. Not to mention making the whole end-user experience terrible.
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Re:The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles by nofunsir on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:00PM (#17428175)
Amusingly, they call them "CompanionColumns" in the html. I'm sure there's a uBlock filter one could create.
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Re:The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles by ISL on Friday June 29, 2018 @05:38PM (#17428034)
That is how newspapers have been for centuries.
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Re:The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles by zyxwvu on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:21PM (#17428297)
No. Newspapers would have article conintued on page # that would break up an article. The ads were not within the article/wall of texts themselves. Those ads also didn't break or hinder the the medium through which the text was displayed.
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