One can click the next (arrow) button and it will show a couple of pages of content explaining the concept. Works without entering an email address. (Yes, not the best UI concept).
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| The union is calling on the city take several actions to provide relief for the city’s struggling taxi industry, including changing rules so taxi drivers aren’t required to replace their vehicles as often
Right! Let's loosen the rules and allow the cabs to be in worse condition than they already are, that will get the customers back! /s
I think this will be very beneficial to non-savvy web-users who may be tricked by misleading ads like the download buttons, and the like.
Ads aren't really a problem for me (and I am guessing a lot of others), it's bad/misleading ads like pop-ups, auto-play video ads, etc. I think the idea to block ads that do not follow an established industry standard is definitely a step in the right direction.
Savvy users will continue to use 3rd party ad blockers- no change there.
I feel like auto-play ads make sense on youtube because youtube is a video service and you go in expecting a video anyway. It's like a TV commercial.
I get super pissed by auto-play ads on non-video websites, but when it's in front of a video such as on youtube I find it only a minor annoyance.
[EDIT: I don't know if there are auto-play ads in the sidebar on desktop, I use adblock on desktop so I only see those video ads on the mobile version, which doesn't have anywhere else to put ads]
There's no shock of audio but it's still stopping you from getting to the content. It's just as bad as full-page interstitials. (By the way, does anyone else get unreasonably mad that the button to leave such an ad usually says "skip" even when the ad was already shown and stays up indefinitely?)
I paid my way through private high school by building websites for small businesses 19 years ago. Nowadays you can build a CRUD web app with the same effort. Many small businesses will beg you to solve their little technical problems.
This may sound mean but truth of the matter is - a lot of people think they're way better than they really are.
I wouldn't trust most working developers I've worked with to be able to deliver me something decent from start to finish, alone.
That's why companies have BAs, managers, testers, etc. Because doing it solo is a rare feat, unless we're talking gluing a wordpress theme together, in which case I'd recommend they look into squarespace :)
"The reason: Google search results are based on an algorithm that scans the internet for free content. After the Journal’s free articles went behind a paywall, Google’s bot only saw the first few paragraphs and started ranking them lower, limiting the Journal’s viewership."
“You are definitely being discriminated against as a paid news site.”
Jesus fucking christ, what a sentence. 'Google-bot can't index our pay-walled articles... DISCRIMINATION!!!' fuck wsj, seriously
