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Submission + - Slashdot goes mental with advertising 9

Submitted by sizzlinkitty
sizzlinkitty writes: Has anyone else noticed Slashdot failing to load because of your ad blocker? I know I sure have and it's breaking my user experience like no other.

Please post the blocking patterns you're using to make Slashdot usable again.
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Slashdot goes mental with advertising

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  • The entire online advertising industry is rotten from the ground up.
    Yes, we get it that you need to make some coin somewhere, but this is not the way.
    If this means you are no longer viable as a business, well, you done been shooting yourselves in the foot, at intervals, in one way or another, since acquired by Dice. You're only a shell of what you used to be anyway. Maybe you're past your Best By date and need to go die quietly somewhere.

  • I'm using ordinary uBlock Origin with Firefox. Not having any trouble.

    • You do have to do basically hourly updates to your subscription lists though. Still I chose a hell of a time to come back, I guess I'll stick with soylent.

  • I had to turn off enhanced tracking protection on Firefox for the site to work properly. I couldn't post otherwise. Slashdot is so disrespectful. They of all people should understand that ads aren't just an annoyance, they are a massive threat vector. Lack of security as a business model is ugly.

  • Slashdot is already just a shadow of its former self. I fondly recall the halcion days when being "slashdotted" meant your webserver would crash with huge volumes of traffic.

    Today, even the most popular topics get barely more than a hundred or so comments and many barely make it into double-digits for comments -- a tiny amount compared to the thousands (or more) of posts that almost every topic got "back in the day".

    This change to the way ads are served will simply be another nail in the coffin of Slashdot

    • The editors happened and they prefer not to explain or discuss motivation behind the waterfall of low quality stories and dupes they post. They are the problem and apparently have indifferent employers who know no better.

      A good start would be eliminating editor-selected stories and letting readers vote on everything. They still get paid for "editing" either way.

      If the objective was to make Slashdot worth less by chasing off most of the audience they succeeded.

  • This was caused due to a new ad partner. We've disabled them and rolled everything back to how it was before as of 2 hours ago

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