| Some ads - fine. Selected and appropriate ads - fine. Let me explain via my experience of THIS website on an iPhone. A banner ad appears at the very top, covering most of the cookie notice. I would be surprised if this doesn’t violate EU law. Upon collapsing it and agreeing to give my soul to the Cookie Monster, another ad takes up most of the screen. This ad, ON A SOFTWARE SITE, says “download now! Start downloading. Download your copy now [green arrow]”, with a small logo at the bottom left saying “learning lab”. ON A SOFTWARE SITE. I scroll down half a page. Another banner ad appears. Then I see a tiny amount of information in an infographic followed by a form to donate in US $ or EU $ (not € - they’re asking for euros in $…). Below that, another Download Now ad, this time from The Books Master. It takes up half the screen. Then a bit more content. Some testimonials too. Then… another half screen ad. Then the page footer and another half screen ad. From my estimation, 50% of the page is ads, two of which are deliberately misleading (on behalf of the advertiser). I have absolutely nothing against ads, but this takes the biscuit. I would absolutely not be surprised if this was done in prep for posting to hacker news, knowing the views it’s going to get - but Id also not be surprised if it’s just designed by someone who doesn’t understand the dreadful public image that this has. I’ve never heard of the distro. It doesn’t look like it’s designed for the likes of me anyway (clue’s in my username). But I could never direct someone to a site like this. |