What is Digg?15 Comments
- goatrandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14+Digg - For truthiness. I can not stand it when 'content' is overwhelmed by BS ads. It makes me pine for the days when the internet was mostly a military/educational system.
Corporations have ruined/made the internet. - Bungledust, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Dude, 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.
- Desco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At 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! - weird0science, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It isn't aimed at you, just the people who see that trash as they browse the web every day.
- lowlevel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats 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.)
- Waterrat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3 So do I...I remember when there were not ads in your face at every turn.
- Niffer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've often felt the same disgust at PC Magazine's website. The magazine itself is all right, but the website? God damn...
- Bungledust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or even Beat magazine (Melbourne music streetpress) where the contents page resides on page 17 to make way for ads.
- ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Direct link to article
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2006860,00.asp - notfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And yet, pressing the 'print' button at the bottom of the article gives ALL the content without ads, on one page.
I'm just saying.... - FlorentG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think that most people don't even scroll to the bottom...
- Alexx3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Makes you appreciate sites like Digg and youtube all the more, adverts - yes, I can deal with. 55% adverts is just madness, thats even worse than those free newspapers we get crammed through the door.
- Bungledust, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Good point.
- PieceOfShoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I 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 (http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=186668,00.asp). 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? - weird0science, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I hope you use firefox. Whether you do or not, and you see lots of ads, this story below is for you.
http://digg.com/security/Adblocking_in_Firefox_A_Tutorial_for_n00b_Intermediate
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