lifeofmuff.blogspot.com— This PC Magazine article I found on Digg is filled with ads (about 55% of the page), with only 4.5% of the page dedicated to the actual content of the story.
Sep 9, 2006View in Crawl 4
At least the content is at the top, and the ads are below where you don't care. I don't mind some ads (after all, someone's got to pay for bandwidth) but I hate being forced to wade through or find the link/content among a slew of ads. Viva Firefox+NoScript+AdBlockPlus!
I know something/someone has to pay for the content. Nothing is free. Sites like PC Magazine, though, are so over the top. They make the content painful to get at. Have you ever tried to browse that site with a Treo 700w? Not worth the time.At twenty sentences at a time how many times do we need to click "next >" in order to read the whole article?The first thing I do for sites like that is find the PRINT link and click it (<a class="user" href="http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=186668,00.asp).">http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=186668,00.asp).</a> Someday soon they will begin removing the printer formatted pages. When they do I will move on to other content sources. BTW since the majority of this sites spamminess comes from their own served html most of the ad blocking utilities don't help that much. I have started writing grease monkey scripts for pages I frequent that are too noisy but whose content is important to me. Is there a better solution?
Thats nothing. Pick up a printed magazine such as Elle or something. Theres like 10 pages of full page ads before you even get to the table of contents! (Its my girlfriends mag, honest.)
weird0scienceSep 9, 2006
I hope you use firefox. Whether you do or not, and you see lots of ads, this story below is for you.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/security/Adblocking_in_Firefox_A_Tutorial_for_n00b_Intermediate">http://digg.com/security/Adblocking_in_Firefox_A_Tutorial_for_n00b_Intermediate</a>
bungledustSep 9, 2006Submitter
Dude, have a look at the screenshot. I am clearly using Firefox. And I know how to block an ad. That is NOT the point of this article.
bungledustSep 9, 2006Submitter
Good point.
Closed AccountSep 9, 2006
So do I...I remember when there were not ads in your face at every turn.
descoSep 12, 2006
At least the content is at the top, and the ads are below where you don't care. I don't mind some ads (after all, someone's got to pay for bandwidth) but I hate being forced to wade through or find the link/content among a slew of ads. Viva Firefox+NoScript+AdBlockPlus!
notfredSep 12, 2006
And yet, pressing the 'print' button at the bottom of the article gives ALL the content without ads, on one page.I'm just saying....
pieceofshoeSep 12, 2006
I know something/someone has to pay for the content. Nothing is free. Sites like PC Magazine, though, are so over the top. They make the content painful to get at. Have you ever tried to browse that site with a Treo 700w? Not worth the time.At twenty sentences at a time how many times do we need to click "next >" in order to read the whole article?The first thing I do for sites like that is find the PRINT link and click it (<a class="user" href="http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=186668,00.asp).">http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=186668,00.asp).</a> Someday soon they will begin removing the printer formatted pages. When they do I will move on to other content sources. BTW since the majority of this sites spamminess comes from their own served html most of the ad blocking utilities don't help that much. I have started writing grease monkey scripts for pages I frequent that are too noisy but whose content is important to me. Is there a better solution?
lowlevelSep 12, 2006
Thats nothing. Pick up a printed magazine such as Elle or something. Theres like 10 pages of full page ads before you even get to the table of contents! (Its my girlfriends mag, honest.)
bungledustSep 22, 2006Submitter
Or even Beat magazine (Melbourne music streetpress) where the contents page resides on page 17 to make way for ads.