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Comment by dredmorbius | Hacker News Reader

Sparing the pain of paging through the list one javascript link at a time:

     1  Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
     2  Jeffrey Citron, Vonage
     3  Reed Hastings, Netflix
     4  Ken Kutaragi, Sony
     5  Warren Lieberfarb, HD-DVD promotion group
     6  Rob Malda, Slashdot
     7  Aurun Sarin, Vodafone
     8  Jon Schwartz, Sun Systems
     9  Linus Torvalds, Linux
    10  Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

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Thanks.

I picked up a nasty bit of malware from an imbedded advertising on cnn.com and have since not only blocked them via adblock+, but I mark them as untrusted in NoScript. As a result, none of the links worked.

I will say, it's almost impressive that CmdrTaco (Rob Malda) ended up as #6. Having been unable to read the article the list almost implies people who have had serious influence in the past. I'd be honored to be on it (especially if, in 2006, I was named Mark Zuckerberg).

edit: clarify the advertising problem. It wasn't a link.

i was just about to do the same! :)

I might've let it alone if the Firefox AutoPager extension had worked on it, but no.

I fucking hate that linkbait shit.

Do they do this so they can show ads on multiple pages? I couldn't tell since I'm always browsing with an adblocker on

That and simply inflating pageviews / counts / visits and user time-on-site, all of which are typical performance metrics used by websites.

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