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California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record

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Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record

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Post by hinkley »

mikestew wrote: post #10
apsurd wrote: post #4

I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow

Though The Chronicle is pretty bad, it is generally what I see when I surf without a Pi-Hole (or choose your fave ad-blocking tool). And, yeah, I honestly don’t know why people put up with it. I offered to put a Pi-Hole on my parent’s network. Mom wrote code for 30 years, she can handle the minimal intervention needed. Nope, they turned me down, they’re fine with things the way they are. First thing they did with tha…

I still believe there must be space in the universe for an ethical ad network that makes you less money but anyone caught fucking with your readership gets banned. There’s a bunch of sites that would appreciate a little supplemental revenue but just don’t use ads at all because it’s so scummy.

It just has to be better than selling your nonprofit’s contact list to other nonprofits.

Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record

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Post by hdgvhicv »

apsurd wrote: post #4

I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow

The question is in anyone actually reading it with those adverts?

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Post by apsurd »

hdgvhicv wrote: post #22
apsurd wrote: post #4

I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow

The question is in anyone actually reading it with those adverts?

That's why I was compelled to post. We forget that this is how the Internet is for large portions of the population. It's bananas.

My dad still uses yahoo for all of his news. I've realized it's not uncommon to hear people use Yahoo as the front page of the internet still in 2025. I get it. Also, it's depressing. (left for the reader to see why. just go to yahoo with blockers off).

Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record

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Post by metalman »

strbean wrote: post #17

It's so surprising that we don't use a precise method of gauging wave height for these records. AFAIK they still estimate the surfers height while riding, and then count those heights up the side of the wave in a photograph. I'd imagine we would have a method closer to surveying techniques by now.

there is a new, exotic method for measuring gigantic waves, that uses atmospheric disturbances to gps signals and gravity waves that ocean waves generate. SWOT

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/swot/us-french-swot-satellite-...

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Post by jedberg »

hinkley wrote: post #21
mikestew wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Though The Chronicle is pretty bad, it is generally what I see when I surf without a Pi-Hole (or choose your fave ad-blocking tool). And, yeah, I honestly don’t know why people put up with it. I offered to put a Pi-Hole on my parent’s network. Mom wrote code for 30 years, she can handle the minimal intervention needed. Nope, they turned me down, they’re fine with things the way they are. First thing they did with tha…

I still believe there must be space in the universe for an ethical ad network that makes you less money but anyone caught fucking with your readership gets banned. There’s a bunch of sites that would appreciate a little supplemental revenue but just don’t use ads at all because it’s so scummy. It just has to be better than selling your nonprofit’s contact list to other nonprofits.

When we first built the reddit ads system, this is exactly what we went for. We ran it ourselves, you could only upload a single static image.

Turns out you really can't make a lot of money that way. Especially now. If you don't offer re-targeting and bespoke ads, no one wants to pay you money for ads.

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Post by imoverclocked »

xp84 wrote: post #16
rognjen wrote: post #3

This site needs to be banned from HN. It's borderline spam employing every trick in the book to maximise your pageview. Clickbait title, interstitial ads, floating vid, back jacking, newsletter, notification... When I open the page it's only a third that's content -- and that's only the clickbait title. What garbage...

While I agree that it's a trash site and an embarrassment to its roots as The Chronicle's website, anyone like yourself who notices how bad it is would do well to take it as a reminder that your adblocker is missing or not working. It appeared as though it were a normal site to me with ublock origin.

Maybe we can just block the actual origin of the ads; No need for excess plugins.

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Post by exhilaration »

I know nothing about surfing but I picked up Barbarian Days on Audible https://www.audible.com/pd/Barbarian-Days-Audiobook/B00YMMTO... and I was captivated. After I finished it I started looking for surf schools within driving distance of my home, still looking for something on the (New) Jersey Shore or Long Island. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Post by randallsquared »

apsurd wrote: post #4

I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow

Brave browser worked well, and I didn't see any of those, or the blank spaces another commenter was complaining about with their blocker.
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