alt Hacker NewsI started to find this article interesting but every time I tapped “x” on an ad to dismiss it, no more than five seconds later, the same ad would appear at the bottom and distract me. Over and over.
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slwvx • yesterday at 11:42 PM
Sounds like a "dickover", a term coined by John Gruber: https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover
goodmythical • yesterday at 9:18 PM
Archive.org has a few copies: https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://lithub.c...
bsammon • yesterday at 10:56 PM
sorta piling on here, but it's also worth noting that this problem goes away (and the article is quite readable) in a browser with javascript turned off (and no adblocker).
The internet is so much better blocking ads.