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by shbooms 1381 days ago
Holy hell, this blog is virtually unreadable. Article content aside, the fact that after pretty much every single paragraph there's 1-2 giant links to some other article and/or an ad is just infurianting and makes it impossible to focus. I stopped reading after the first few and will be adding this site to my blocklist.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this, I actually gave up reading it halfway through because the ads fracture the content far too much - it just doesn't flow.
I had to add this rule to UBo so I could continue reading

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I likewise found this annoying. The giant link previews are especially disruptive on mobile where two in a row can literally take up most of the screen, although they're also obnoxious on the desktop.

When I first saw them I thought maybe they were ads, or there was a mistake and I ran into the end of the article early.

I liked the post, though! Geoffrey, please reconsider this citation style where you have an ellipsis and then giant link previews. I think it distracts from good content. Could similar link previews upon hover still scratch the itch that drove you to try these link previews?