Do the makers of sites like this know how terrible it is to try to actually read an article on them? Just tried on iOS. As you scroll, the ads load and change and throw you to a different part of the page and you lose your place repeatedly.

After about 4 times, I bailed.

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Volv 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Its fine on PC with AdBlock. Possibly that's all they test. I sometimes wonder how these devs can sleep at night - random news websites. in the UK the sun or similar - unreadable nonsense auto play videos pop over ads etc etc. I imagine they start at - don't block ads somehow - your problem.

	▲	_doctor_love an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I sometimes wonder how these devs can sleep at night You might be surprised. I met a guy in Berkeley who lived out of a van. He told me that he ran a horrible ad distribution thing as a way to make his living. There was some fly-by-night colo or homelab setup he had to run some cheap pizza box hardware. "I'm basically always playing a game of how can I serve the most ads on this shitty CPU I have." All kinds of nasty stuff ran on his ad network, he totally didn't care. I asked him how did he get paid and of course he received Bitcoin and other crypto. I asked him what did he usually buy with that crypto? He looked me dead in the eye and said: "coke and heroin." Some people truly, truly, truly don't care about the consequences of their actions.

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snowwrestler an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is against HN guidelines to post complaints like this. We all had the same experience reading the article; yes it sucks, but it sucks in a completely common way that has nothing to do with the unique content or why it was posted to HN.

And complaining about it here adds no substance to the conversation, nor does it do anything to fix the problem.

In the spirit of the subject of the article, perhaps view the terrible UX as a sort of difficult wilderness you have to cross in order to reach the interesting info in the article text. Take pride in your ability to forge ahead and reach your goal. :-)

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stevenwoo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Hearst papers uses some pretty terrible ad networks and it’s done so for years so one would have to assume it’s on purpose, like torrent tracker website ads. I only put up with it cause it’s free for now.

	▲	dylan604 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		(Un)ironically, it's free precisely because of all of the ads and data harvesting

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dunham 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On most news sites, the ads are annoying and the sheer weight of the third party tracking and ad javascript make them unusable.

But I've found that a lot of news sites are bearable with javascript disabled. On chrome desktop, you can do that per site via the site settings in the location bar. On iOS, I'm using Quiche browser. It's subscription, but it can disable javascript per site and has auto dark mode functionality.

	▲	IncreasePosts 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I like to just have JavaScript disabled by default, and as I encounter a site rarely that isn't usable with JavaScript, I just explicitly allow JavaScript for that domain It's incredible to see how fresh the web feels and how much better your battery life is when you're not running a bunch of code in every tab you have open
	▲	LoganDark 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wouldn't necessarily mind a paid browser if there were a lifetime option. Apparently you weren't kidding about subscription.