[Andrex]

I was trying to read some I/O news on some feckless Google news fan-blog.

By the time I got to the middle of the article: three massive banner ads (top, right, and bottom) were taking up more content than the text, there was an auto-playing video ad floating in the bottom right corner (overlapping most of one of the banner ads), and a "dynamic" ad in the middle of the text randomly started expanding/shrinking and glitching out making it impossible to actually read anything.

And this is one of the better experiences reading modern blog-alikes. Things are almost at sketchy porn-site levels.

Sad and pathetic...

[anonyfox]

to be blunt actual porn sites are hyper optimized and mostly have a polished user experience, even frontier level tech stuff going on at times. you know how onlie credit card payment came really alive? not judging, but I'd not throw corn into the edge of shitty tech by default

[Andrex]

I would categorize most porn sites as sketchier on average than non-porn sites, but the gap is closing and that's an indictment of bloggers and the companies running them.

Early tech finds footing in porn (VHS, internet video, etc.) but that's a separate topic/conversation.