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Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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Post by bduerst »

Spooky23 wrote: post #215
bduerst wrote: post #126

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Isn't this more of a sign that restaurant/hotel businesses are becoming more SEO savvy, and that aggregators are becoming outdated? Remember, the aggregators originally dethroned the travel agencies as the 'experts' in connecting people with what they want. Google search is in the business of providing information, meaning if they have the info available they'll provide an aggregated list of restaurants to someone wh…

I doubt it. Google has a long and storied history (since Dejanews) of fucking up user generated content on google properties. If you're looking for restaurants and hotels, TripAdvisor and Yelp are exponentially better than anything Google is going to give you.

It's not user generated content though.

That's the point - that these businesses are providing enough information to allow Google to aggregate them for a user with intent, rather than just pass the user off to another website aggregator.

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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Post by st3v3r »

dang wrote: post #242
st3v3r wrote: post #144

Again, why? Why are you so against people getting paid for their work?

This crosses into incivility, which breaks the site guidelines. Please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13440624 and marked it off-topic.

How is this incivility?

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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Post by st3v3r »

CaptSpify wrote: post #162
st3v3r wrote: post #106

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Why shouldn't people be able to get paid for their work? No one is forcing you to pay them; it's just the same as anything else has been: If you want the product of someone's labor, you pay them what they ask for.

Where did anyone say that they can't get paid for their work?

The guy who said that he wants paywalled sites punished for trying to get paid for their work.

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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Post by st3v3r »

dang wrote: post #243
st3v3r wrote: post #22

Because fuck people who are trying to get paid for their work? I mean, we can't all work 100% for free all the time like you must do. EDIT: I guess people who downvote also don't get paid for their work, and don't feel anyone else should?

You repeatedly crossed into incivility in this thread. You also broke the HN guidelines by going on about downvoting. Please don't do these things. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439901 and marked it off-topic.

I'm not seeing the repeated incivility. That comment was on the line, but none of the others were. Please provide an explanation as to why it was uncivil.

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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Post by yellowapple »

nommm-nommm wrote: post #358
alphonsegaston wrote: post #331

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I frequently have to delete these kinds of HTML nodes off the page just to see if it actually has something I want. I debated rolling my own extension for the common sites where I run into this, but ended up just throwing up my hands at the absurdity of the situation.

I just hit CTRL-U to read the pages source which contains the text content. Now that I think about it I wonder if reader mode would work. Hey, maybe you can just set your user agent to Google Bot.

Reader Mode is invaluable for sites that use Javascript to throw up paywalls when you're in the middle of reading something (Wired does this, last I checked). Sometimes you have to refresh the page for it to fully work, but once you do, the full text is right there, in a format that's much nicer than the original could ever strive to be.

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Post by yellowapple »

Spooky23 wrote: post #323
throwaway1892 wrote: post #311

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I remember that one because of the offer to learn Oracle during a cruise, complete with the important part "Convince the boss" : http://www.dba-oracle.com/BC_cruise.htm

Unfortunately, the thing that stuck in my head was "redneck philosophy". http://www.dba-oracle.com/redneck.htm

This is obviously fake; real rednecks can't afford an Oracle license.

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Post by sjy »

nommm-nommm wrote: post #354
bluGill wrote: post #348

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To be self stable milk needs to be heated hot enough to change the flavor. Americans prefer the taste of milk that has not been heated as much. I once has breakfast on a real dairy farm, they got their milk from the tank right after milking. After drinking milk that was in the cow just 3 hours before I cannot stand milk you can buy. I cannot say if this is because it was never pasteurized, or just that is was fresh,…

There's no discernible taste difference (to me, at the very least) between traditionally pasteurized milk and UHT pasteurized milk. I seriously doubt anyone could tell the difference in a blind taste test. Additionally, plenty of UHT milk is sold in the refrigerator section, so it's not an aversion to UHT itself. Organic milk is more often UHT pasteurized than non-organic milk and people usually buy organic because t…

I think there's a very noticeable difference – but you don't have to take my word for it, because lots of research has been done on this subject. For example, see Vazquez-Landaverde, P., Torres, J. & Qian, M. (2006) Quantification of trace volatile sulfur compounds in milk by solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography-pulsed flame photometric detection, Journal of Dairy Science 89, 2919–2927 – or just search for 'uht milk taste' on Google Scholar.

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Post by quadrangle »

herbst wrote: post #317
quadrangle wrote: post #45

Use uBlock Origin people! In Firefox on Android. Don't see any pop-up ads! I can't believe how much pain people subjective themselves to needlessly!

Wait you are telling me it is even worse? I see those popups all the time even with ublock

I once saw someone using their phone with no blocking of anything, it was truly horrifying!

Re: Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

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Post by herbst »

quadrangle wrote: post #369
herbst wrote: post #317

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Wait you are telling me it is even worse? I see those popups all the time even with ublock

I once saw someone using their phone with no blocking of anything, it was truly horrifying!

I dont block anything on my phone ether. My policy is to bounce whatever annoys me ASAP. Yes i mostly read only hacker news on my phone
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