Tangential to the article content: I don't usually read articles on mobile witbout adblock, but I tried here and I couldn't finish the article on a top of the line phablet.
Do people really consume content these days with contextual greentext inline, socials sediment up top, sticky video on bottom, popups in the middle, and dynamically resizing interstitials interrupting your scroll before you get to the spam at the end of the article?
I can think of classier and more restrained porn sites than this supposed news outlet, which ostensibly trades on trust but makes me feel the need to check for malware drive-bys.
Am I doing something wrong or is this just the sorry state of news on the web?
The Independent isn't a reliable news source and it has no place on Hacker News.
Their advertising is over-the-top because it's a dying business. They don't even print anymore, they're just an online tabloid, and when they're not getting enough views, they start making up their own news.
It's too bad, because at one time they were one of the few British papers that was able to stand up to Murdoch's right-wing print empire, but in the end Murdoch had bigger pockets, and the Independent scurried into the shadows to create garbage.
I found it interesting, ads or not (I adblock everything) and hand't read about Dame Steve. Fantastic to think that F1 made 30 or so of their software employees, mostly women millionaires.
Do people really consume content these days with contextual greentext inline, socials sediment up top, sticky video on bottom, popups in the middle, and dynamically resizing interstitials interrupting your scroll before you get to the spam at the end of the article?
I can think of classier and more restrained porn sites than this supposed news outlet, which ostensibly trades on trust but makes me feel the need to check for malware drive-bys.
Am I doing something wrong or is this just the sorry state of news on the web?