Slashdot Dies A Slow Death with Crippling Advertisements

zamboni1138 writes: Anybody familiar with the technology news web forum known as Slashdot have known about the recent decline in quality of stories and comments. Recently Slashdot decided to "upgrade" their advertisement experience resulting in an almost broken user experience for users that implement any kind of ad-blocking technology. Over the last week visitors to the site using ad blockers have noticed a unique experience with javascript alerts explaining "This page could not be loaded properly due to incorrect / bad filtering rule(s) of adblockers in use. Please disable all adblockers to continue using the website. (click OK if you'd like to learn more)". These notices are almost non-stop while trying to load/read a page making the site unusable.

Rolled back

[whipslash]

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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[zamboni1138]

Funny that your name is whipslash, because the recent ad-loading of Slashdot actually causes whiplash. Advertisements with heights of 100px followed a few seconds later by replacement advertisements with heights of 1,000px causing the entire story to move and a story reader forced to re-focus their eyes to something potentially off screen is so incredibly annoying. If ads maintained their height and didn't force content to move around on-screen I would not have been annoyed so much. But now, reading a story