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Comment by lone_haxx0r | Hacker News Reader

Unreadable. As soon as I click on the (X) button, the article closes and the browser goes back to the root page of https://techcrunch.com/.

There's no way to avoid clicking on it, as it follows you around and grabs your attention, not letting you read.

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Even when you fight that annoyance with a content blocker, the page itself is aggressive to no end.

I scrolled down to see how long the article is. That somehow also triggered a redirect to the root.

How is it possible that the most user hostile news sites often get the most visibility? Even here on HN which is so user friendly. What are the mechanics behind this?

The url should be changed to a more user friendly news source. How about one of these?

https://liliputing.com/2019/05/arm-launches-cortex-a77-cpu-m...

https://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/130757-arm-releases-cortex-a...

https://www.xda-developers.com/arm-cortex-a77-cpu-announceme...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/27/arm_cortex_a77/

https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/26/arm-reveals-new-cpu-gpu-a...

Thanks! It'd be cool if HN had an alternative article feature.

If you click the "web" link at the top of the page, it brings you to a search for the post title. You should be able to find a number of alternate sources there

Also worth mentioning AnandTech:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14407/amd-ryzen-3000-announce...

I think you mean:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14384/arm-announces-cortexa77...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14385/arm-announces-malig77-g...

Yes, thank you.

The AnandTech coverage is orders of magnitude better, and way less user-hostile, than the techcrunch coverage.

> Even here on HN which is so user friendly.

Except on mobile. The UI elements are tiny, try closing ten comments without clicking the timestamp by mistake at least once.

I can recommend https://hackerweb.app/ on mobile.

And to vote on mobile I have to zoom in because the buttons are way to close to each other and give no feedback which of the two was pressed (and no way to find out after the fact).

One tip, when you up vote or down vote a link is added to the comments header. It will either be “unvote” or “undown” depending on whether you up or downvoted the comment.

And when you open the page every time it wants to go through all the cookie and partner options instead of just saying "yup, we remember you deactivated everything. [change settings] [continue reading]"

But by what mechanism would it remember that you deactivated cookies?

You don't deactivate all cookies as such, you deactivate personalised tracking cookies.

So the site shouldn't place a cookie 'session_id=12345678', but a cookie 'techcrunch_tracking_enabled=False' that's not linked to any particular user would be just fine.

by keeping a "necessary" cookie for instance.

And you don't think they really stop tracking you just because you said you didn't like it, right? What would you even do against it? Sue each and every website owner on the planet somewhere in the EU where they might not even care?

Techcrunch is terrible for reading articles now unless you disable JavaScript... works perfectly without JS

Not to mention that Techcrunch is far from being the best source in relation to hardware...

It works fine if you disable Javascript

3rd party javascript turned off here - page loads quickly, is ad-free, readable, and includes the figures.

Try the Reader Mode in your browser. Don't know if Chrome has it, but it's there in Safari and Firefox.

The circle with the X is weird design, because it looks like a button that's supposed to close something, but as long as you don't click it, the article is perfectly readable. You just need to resist your reflexes to click any X in sight.

Also checked the titlebar in chrome, is it zoomed..?

I can't get past the Oath GDPR popup. None of the buttons work and go in to this strange endless loop.

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