Links from this website sometimes will show the article briefly then it will transition to a page that says, "no hotlinking please" Like, WTF? I have various add-ons that are supposed to fix that sort of shit, and I'm not gonna tinker, I'm just gonna leave. If you don't want clicks, FINE BE THAT WAY
[–] Moonbat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Know what I wonder? Is how do they make money with those ads in the first place? I literally have not clicked on an ad in over a decade, even before there were ad blockers. Who does that? Grannies who don't know any better? I mean I know only a fraction of 1% has to actually spend money in order for the ad to be profitable but still ... hard to imagine it making enough to support whole sites.
[–] [deleted] 3 points -1 points 2 points (+2|-3) ago
Annoying ads on the net need to be done for. They hardly pay, they are an exausted model. Micro services are the new wave, places where you can go and pay $1 in bitcoin a month and you get some kind of cool service. Often these things are technical, either secure email or a seed box or openvz containers. One day the model may hit social sites. I don't think it will be a bad thing.
[–] RaptorJesus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You have a very generous window of almost and entire second after the site loads where can click on the stop icon in the url bar so it does not give you the message.
Their blocking is very easy to circumvent yet it is not worth doing it to visit that site again. Nothing of value was lost.