Ask HN: What are the worst cases of online advertising you have seen?
As part of a project I have been researching online advertising. Day-to-day I have an ad-blocker installed as well as disabling Javascript by default so when I installed a fresh version of Chrome and went to a popular photography blog [1] I was astonished to see the page never stop loading as the numerous adverts on site constantly refresh.
The New York Times ran a study on "The Cost of Mobile Ads" [2] in 2015 which analysed popular news mobile home pages comparing the amount of advertising vs. editorial content.
- What are the worst cases of online advertising you have seen?
- Did it make you install an ad-blocker?
- If not, why not?
- [1] http://www.photographyblog.com/
- [2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-of-mobile-ads.html