top | item 12298732 (no title) voidfiles | 9 years ago Human misery isn't something most companies want to be associated with. For that reason, many companies don't want their ads to run next to content like that. I've personally had to quickly pull ads off a site because of that fact. discuss order hn newest maxerickson|9 years ago I've been occasionally fascinated that newspapers don't have a flag in their CMSs for articles that are crass to plaster with ads. CM30|9 years ago The New York Times seems to do this:http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/03/an-ad-blocker-for-tragedies...If a story is marked as sensitive, an option is set and ads aren't shown on it.The Guardian has this too. And I've done this on a few sites I've worked with as well. voidfiles|9 years ago We developed that flag after the incident I referred too.
maxerickson|9 years ago I've been occasionally fascinated that newspapers don't have a flag in their CMSs for articles that are crass to plaster with ads. CM30|9 years ago The New York Times seems to do this:http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/03/an-ad-blocker-for-tragedies...If a story is marked as sensitive, an option is set and ads aren't shown on it.The Guardian has this too. And I've done this on a few sites I've worked with as well. voidfiles|9 years ago We developed that flag after the incident I referred too.
CM30|9 years ago The New York Times seems to do this:http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/03/an-ad-blocker-for-tragedies...If a story is marked as sensitive, an option is set and ads aren't shown on it.The Guardian has this too. And I've done this on a few sites I've worked with as well.
maxerickson|9 years ago
CM30|9 years ago
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/03/an-ad-blocker-for-tragedies...
If a story is marked as sensitive, an option is set and ads aren't shown on it.
The Guardian has this too. And I've done this on a few sites I've worked with as well.
voidfiles|9 years ago