Re:Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
by Fornax96 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:41AM
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It's not like pixeldrain has been hacked or anything. I have been serving ads for this company for almost a year. It's just that they decided to serve full screen ads all of a sudden without consulting me.
I have removed them completely for now. I'll just be operating at a loss until I find an alternative ;-(
Re:Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
by tyingq on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:33PM
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Ah, okay, sorry. I didn't see that piece of javascript on any other user-created pixeldrain pages, and it isn't involved in the ad at the bottom/center of the page. So, it did seem out of place to me. I can't even tell where it would place an ad.
Re:Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
by Fornax96 on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:53AM
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No problem. I base the ads I show on the size of the file that's being downloaded. Larger files cost more bandwidth so they get more intrusive ads. But I don't want the ads to be so intrusive that they drive users away of course.
Normally these ads would show up as little floating windows in the bottom right corner.
It looks troublesome to me, as I don't see it on other similar pages on your site that also have ads.
Edit: Confirmed. Added "optyruntchan.com" to my local hosts file as 127.0.0.1. The page still has the ad at the bottom, but all the popups, overlays, redirects, are gone.