Unrelated to the content, anyone else having trouble reading this article?
After three reloads from what seems to be way too many interactive ads, the page crashed entirely. I got about one paragraph in before this:
https://postimg.cc/2qQ3qPjy
That page was nearly unreadable in Chrome on my phone due to bizarre scrolling ads everywhere and eventually crashed and died. A pity, I was learning a lot.
As soon as I went to the page, it was hijacked by a huge advertisement. It literally loaded the article, then it disappeared and a huge advertisement showed up.
Accidentally clicked on an ad on the site at the bottom, trying to close it. It sent me to one of those, sites that hijacks the vibrate of your phone, and a back button that does nothing.
If the creator of the comic is here -- please pick a more ethical ad provider.
Seemed like an interesting article until halfway through the 1st paragraph, (on mobile) a full screen ad locked down my whole screen and caused me to close the broawer tab. Booo
Offtopic, but, I made the mistake of trying to read this on my mobile phone this morning, where I don't use adblockers per se. Served at least 6 ads, even ignoring the nonsense at the bottom of the page. So annoying and disruptive that I didn't manage to read the story, and will find the details somewhere else.
We really needed a reaction against this nonsense which wasn't just adblockers.
I was enjoying reading through and enjoying the artwork but needed to TL;DR it, scrolled down more towards the end and was bombarded by a large popup Ad on the right of the screen clipping about 35% of the text I was trying to read, close tab, no idea what the site was about, something about travel.
I thought this would be an interesting article then about 5 seconds after loading the page a giant advertisement took over the page. So I closed the tab. Oh well.
For some reason it even crashed my mobile browser.
As I was scrolling, more ads loaded and kept moving the text around.
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