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Gravdigr 08-23-2014 09:12 AM

That's true.

Quote:

I'm not going to miss you at all.

glatt 08-28-2014 09:40 AM

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Hey everybody, it was ice!

http://www.nature.com/news/wandering...lained-1.15773

Attachment 48965

Gravdigr 09-01-2014 03:36 PM

40 Of History’s Most Brilliant One-Liners

No guarantee of truthiness in those quotes.

glatt 09-02-2014 07:34 AM

I'm not picking on you digger when I say this, but I'm not sure about links like that. Not as a mod for the Cellar, but as a web surfer.

You click on the link, and there are the promised quotes. Actually, there is the first quote along with 9 advertisements, 2 links to share the thing on FB, and 8 more click bait stories at the bottom enticing you to get into another clicking and ad serving loop. And then a handful of FB comments written by strangers. To get to the next quote you have to click the "next" button. And you get the next quote, as promised. But this time there are 11 ads instead of 9, and one of them is an auto playing commercial.

I'm not going to keep clicking through to see the rest. If the rest are like the first two, at 40 pages, that would be over 400 ads, and 320 click bait stories.

The web used to be pretty cool, but more and more is being replaced by this crap. If a web page's goal was to share cool stuff for the good of mankind, they could easily fit all that stuff on one page, but their goal is advertising revenue.

Gravdigr 09-02-2014 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 908828)
...but their goal is advertising revenue.

:eek:

I thought they just liked me.

fargon 09-02-2014 06:54 PM

Ad block is your friend.

Pamela 09-02-2014 08:57 PM

^ what he said!

glatt 09-02-2014 08:59 PM

What does that link look like with ad blocker?

gvidas 09-02-2014 10:37 PM

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It's still clickbait, but manageable. Firefox w/ Ghostry + Adblock Plus.

I just get sick of clicking 'next' all the damn time. On the principle of the matter, I resent it when reputable organizations (The Atlantic, here's looking at you) arbitrarily split articles into two pages just for the clicks.

footfootfoot 09-03-2014 06:04 PM

Does anyone not use adblocker?

Clodfobble 09-03-2014 09:24 PM

I don't. I don't go to enough sites with ads to make me bother with it.

glatt 09-04-2014 07:27 AM

I had it on my old PC but forgot to load it on this one when I got it.

Gravdigr 09-04-2014 12:50 PM

I just looked at the photo w/the one liner, and the 'next' button.

'Problem' solved.

xoxoxoBruce 09-05-2014 05:43 AM

No ad block needed. It doesn't matter how many ads are swirling around the periphery, Stay focused and ignore them.
Other than having to click each quote the site runs very smoothly. A lot of that type site have a long delay after you click, which is exasperating and makes me bail.

glatt 09-05-2014 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 908976)
A lot of that type site have a long delay after you click, which is exasperating and makes me bail.

I assumed that's the ads loading, but maybe they have some sort of countdown timer on the page that keeps it from loading a new one for a set period of time so you have more of a chance to read the ads.


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