[techsupporter]

Does it have an in-frame modal that pops up immediately after page load to beg me for my email address?

What about an embedded video window that covers the bottom 2/3rds of the content and follows with scroll?

Oh and I hope you've not left out the absolutely mandatory "Read More" button that spawns a user interaction and auto-plays everything on the page.

Those are all of my favourite things on the web and I really enjoy seeing them all over the place!!

[jl6]

Popups onmouseout, recaptcha handwritten

Newsletter signup, location permission

Video covering every thing

These are my favorite adtech offsprings

[modeless]

I hate intrusive ads as much as the next guy, but denying that ads have benefits and people overwhelmingly choose ad-supported services over paid ones is simply sticking your head in the sand.

[ndriscoll]

Saying people overwhelmingly choose ads is conceptualizing things wrong. Take this blog: it just copied a BI snippet about a study some other party did. No one even linked to the original study.

People correctly value this at $0. This post is noise, and things like it just make web crawling/search harder to scale.