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Et tu, Slashdot?

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Wednesday April 02, @11:55AM
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Went to Slashdot's front page, and Slashdot tried to open a pop-up ad. Firefox blocked it, of course (ironically, I over-rode Firefox so I could get the URL to stick in here.)

But when did Slashdot consider pop-up spam acceptable?


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  • I noticed the same thing and thought they must really be losing touch with what used to be their core audience. Either that or business people are running the show now.
    • Maybe that was their April Fool prank?
      • I don't know. I think the pop up happened today. And I just encountered (I don't know the official term for it) one of those advertisements that interrupted my attempt to read the comments about an article with the little link to skip the add.

        • Ironic that just as Slashdot seriously embraces Web2.0, it apparently starts with the advertising systems that make it practically a necessity to use tools like YesScript to disable Javascript, effectively destroying everything they've spent the time developing.

          I sincerely hope that this is all just an oversight and they subscribed to a third party advertising system that was unaware that pop-ups were a no-no.

          • The only change I've seen is they've changed the css a bit, but then again I sort of switched to Opera last year since I spend a lot more of my day in c (so less need for firebug to help fix web pages, etc...).

            When FF 3.0 stable is out, I'll give it a whirl.

          • I sincerely hope that this is all just an oversight and they subscribed to a third party advertising system that was unaware that pop-ups were a no-no.

            This is entirely possible. One of the dirty little secrets of internet advertising is everyone and their pet cat trades ad feeds with everyone else. The end result is the actual advertiser can end up being a real bottom feeder even if the web site on the other end is using one of the big "brand names" for their ad feed.

            Witness the flash based malware that was plaguing the net last Fall. It was showing up on some big-name sites and coming through on some big-name ad networks.

    • Either that or business people are running the show now.

      That would be my fear.

  • Personally, I'd like to see tech pro sites run different forms of malware on a regular basis. Anyone with even a fraction of a clue would be unaffected, and knocking the others offline would improve the signal to noise ratio.
    • Annoyingly, Firefox insists on doing a crappy animation at the top of the screen that always makes it appear the CPU has suddenly had to factor a product of two giant unknown primes while simultaneously ray tracing the whole of Finding Nemo in full 1080p while it does it. Quite how the Mozilla team came to the conclusion that they should make a pop-up blocker that was almost as annoying as the pop-ups it was blocking is anyone's guess...
  • Pop up ads and the new comment system, with the boxes...Now I really may never come back. *shudder*

    • Yeah, this is horrible. And ACs have random initial moderation scores, you can't find out what the moderation logic is on even your own comments without Javascript enabled to bring up a giant ugly box, and the new "giant ugly box" UI has been implemented everywhere and doesn't work properly with the "back" button. Oh, and search doesn't work. I don't mean in the "Has always been utterly useless for everything except finding the most recently posted stories and journals because it uses "or" logic despite th

      • Slashdot...continuing down the road to suckage since it was deposited, slimy and bawling, on the doorstep of the Internet.

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