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Comment by ultramancool | Hacker News Reader

I closed this almost immediately because of the giant yellow "this is your free article for this month" banner on the top. Get your shit together web designers, I don't need something blaring so everyone in the office sees that it's my free article.

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The yellow banner was fine until it started stalking me down the page -- I need to at least be able to focus on the article's words.

Yeah, I'm all for subscription model instead of ads but, as someone else said, it doesn't have to stalk you down the page. It's way too distracting and takes up enough real estate to be obnoxious.

Right click, delete element.

Almost as fast as closing the page, and you're no longer letting crap web designers dictate what you read and what you don't.

I have uBlock which I'd reach for sooner as it'd remove the element permanently, however I don't want to support websites like this at all, even with just my readership. There are plenty of other places I can read similar articles. I have no interest in reading junk and these sorts of things are a good indicator of junk in my experience.

Oddly, I didn't even notice the banner until I read your comment... I blame Wikipedia for conditioning me to ignore banners.

Give it a chance. It was worth reading.

but is it worth encouraging that kind of behavior by visiting the site? I personally don't think so. There's nothing wrong with it per se, but I personally don't like websites functioning like this so I won't encourage it.

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