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Comment by howmayiannoyyou | Hacker News Reader

IMHO the biggest offender:

    https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/

They are making me insane with the modal login demand. I wonder if Google has downgraded the authoritative standing of StackOverflow?

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These definitely aren't what the OP are talking about. They focus on original content but the quality is not great.

The other sites, every page is a mirror of an SO page, with worse CSS. Maybe you haven't encountered them yet!

geeksforgeeks actually has humanly created articles. The quality varies (kind of like W3Schools does).

With ublock origin I have not seen any modal logins.

For example this article on red black trees: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/red-black-tree-set-1-introduct... does not seem that horrible with proper references to CLRS and everything

OP is talking about ugly looking automated Stack Overflow copies. No idea how those end up so high in rankings.

Do they not have original content? I'm always frustrated when I click too fast and land on geeksforgeeks.org, because their code examples are so low quality and without explanations.

I didn't notice SO being this bad.

This site has fooled me once or twice. I think there are other domains that point to the same data-set, because that's not the only domain serving up this exact content.

See this reddit answer on how to circumvent the login prompt: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/q0oqai/what_is...

you can use UBO element zapper, but i recommend staying away from that site except for leetcode type questions. The content quality is mixed at best.

I’ve just disabled JavaScript. The site works fine and the prompt never appears.

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