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Morning eye and brain insult @Philly.com
By roberta
August 13, 2010 · 12 Comments
I’m sorry Philly.com but this is unacceptable–an ad that will not go away and that covers up content. This page always hurts the eye but this new move is an insult. Talk about putting up fences for your content!
Readers Comments (12)
1) Get Firefox.
2) Install Ad-Block Plus.
3) Block said advertising and more.
4) Enjoy internet again.
hi chris, thanks! i’m on safari on a mac (prefer it to firefox) but I will have to check out ad-block plus. I love these tips!
Here’s a link to adblock for safari.
http://extensions.apple.com/#productivity
If you are going to use an ad blocker, try this out. Instead of just blocking out the ads it shows art instead.
http://add-art.org/
very cool, Austin. Do you have that on your computer?
Stella, thanks. It appears I’m a late-adopter on ad blocking. glad to hear of all these anti-ad programs out there.
You are welcome Roberta. philly.com has one of the most obnoxious ad programs know to man. or woman Glad to lend a helping hand.
I did use it for a little while but I stopped using it for some reason. I can’t remember why though. Maybe I’ll try it again!
But isn’t that very often the case? In general American websites tend to be more overloaded with info than it’s west European counterparts, is what I find. Agree with you, though, the Philly.com one is a particularly good example of a website design gone bad.
Gone bad? It was bad from the day it went up! This pop-up’s refusal to unpop is just the cherry on top.
It’s not even a question of hemispheres. Can you find the information you are seeking? At least that’s what interests me. Philly.com gets a giant raspberry. As to a more personal functionality issue, I hate to link to their stories because the links go dead after a time, which annoys anyone who reads us and wants to follow the link to more info. They often run interesting stories about art, but I link to them less and less frequently.
Libby, I forgot about that other level of gnarliness with philly.com–the disappearing links. truly bad of them not to have permanent links.