> A Lincoln could get me a Facebook review, a Google review, an Amazon review, or, less easily, a Yelp review.
Mostly off topic, but what's "A Lincoln"?
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#32> A Lincoln could get me a Facebook review, a Google review, an Amazon review, or, less easily, a Yelp review. Mostly off topic, but what's "A Lincoln"?
A 5 USD bill.
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#33This is particularly bad in the moving industry. Not only are movers notorious for bribing customers to post good reviews but there are also several well ranking "Moving Specific" review sites that are completely fake. The industry also happens to have some of the most horrific scams...
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uBlock? Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... Safari: https://www.ublock.org/newdl/safari/0.9.5.2 Alternatively: Firefox has a built-in "Reader View" button in the address bar that extracts just the text and formats it for easy reading.
uBlock didn't fix it for me. Also, because the second overlay was huge, I couldn't close it down so I closed the tab instead...
Maybe it's time to NoScript?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
uBlock didn't fix it for me. Also, because the second overlay was huge, I couldn't close it down so I closed the tab instead...
Maybe it's time to NoScript?
I get the feeling having NoScript can be more annoying that not having it so I have been procrastinating installing it...
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#36This site brought up at lease two separate overlay popups while attempting to read it. I don't usually complain about this, but that's totally obnoxious and meant I didn't finish reading the article. Is there a good method to block this aggressively user-unfriendly bullshit?
I always use Firefox's Reader View when reading text-based articles. Especially on mobile. It makes the pages all the same, distraction-free, and fast to scroll.
In Chrome the 'Clearly' extension works similarly. Not on mobile sadly.
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#39In France, an agency created a fake company selling kebap sandwich on Mars. They had 105.000 views on their video, 46k followers, 20k facebook fans...and orders. What's scary isn't the fact people buy fake reviews/followers/etc. but the fact people actually believe in these vanity metrics and want to order afterwards.
To be fair, almost the entire advertising industry is built around trying to effectively lie to people.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
uBlock? Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... Safari: https://www.ublock.org/newdl/safari/0.9.5.2 Alternatively: Firefox has a built-in "Reader View" button in the address bar that extracts just the text and formats it for easy reading.
uBlock didn't fix it for me. Also, because the second overlay was huge, I couldn't close it down so I closed the tab instead...
Right click, Inspect Element, Delete. most of those seem to be about 20 divs deep, but usually have a parent div labelled "modal_something", so move up the chain and delete that parent.
It is annoying to have to do that, so I only do it if I truly care about reading the page. But once it is in your browser, it is in your control. Use that control.