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When ever I see a pay wall on HN these days, I "flag" it.
The New York Times is another one I can think of. I'm not against pay walls or ad blocking, but if, as a content provider, you choose to implement these sorts of "devices" than you can at least expect your content not to be shared around any more on link sites such as HN, i.e. you're not serving the community on those websites any more, your serving your customers. Which is fine, but I'm not your customer. When ever…
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Probably should be a chain, so you sue Forbes, Forbes sues the ad network and the network sues the advertiser. In reality, Forbes lawyers would beat you with a big stick and demonstrate that their public terms and conditions that nobody reads, absolve themselves from any responsibility!
I'm not sure I buy that having a terms page and me viewing some other page on their site constitutes an agreement that absolves Forbes.com from liability or protects them from you suing them.
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Probably should be a chain, so you sue Forbes, Forbes sues the ad network and the network sues the advertiser. In reality, Forbes lawyers would beat you with a big stick and demonstrate that their public terms and conditions that nobody reads, absolve themselves from any responsibility!
I'm not sure I buy that having a terms page and me viewing some other page on their site constitutes an agreement that absolves Forbes.com from liability or protects them from you suing them.
The New York Times is another one I can think of. I'm not against pay walls or ad blocking, but if, as a content provider, you choose to implement these sorts of "devices" than you can at least expect your content not to be shared around any more on link sites such as HN, i.e. you're not serving the community on those websites any more, your serving your customers. Which is fine, but I'm not your customer. When ever…
I believe if you flag too many articles, HN takes away your flagging privilege.
- Upvote posts you like.
- Do not upvote posts you don't like.
- Use 'Flag' judiciously for content that you feel is not appropriate to HN.
- Let the HN ranking algorithm do its work.
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Things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870892
Serving malware seems like a much more serious problem. That sounds like a good reason for banning by itself, regardless of what they do to ad blockers.
I don't like Forbes and can't remember a single Forbes submission on HN that I've gotten any value from, but this is just one in a long list of sites people believe should be banned from HN for reasons other than the content that they publish. I don't think this is a can of worms anyone really wants to open. If you don't want to unwittingly visit Forbes, edit your /etc/hosts file.
The New York Times is another one I can think of. I'm not against pay walls or ad blocking, but if, as a content provider, you choose to implement these sorts of "devices" than you can at least expect your content not to be shared around any more on link sites such as HN, i.e. you're not serving the community on those websites any more, your serving your customers. Which is fine, but I'm not your customer. When ever…