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Comment by ryanbrunner | Hacker News Reader

That is some distracting ad placement, particularly given the content of the blog post. I spent a good couple of minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with the copy on the "Heart Internet" ad before I realized that it had nothing to do with the blog post.

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Why should I want to disable Adblock, given horror stories like this one?

Yeah, "what ad?"

I did the exact same thing. I didn't even realize it was unrelated until I read this comment, I just figured something was going over my head.

That's truly awful ad placement. Especially as the blog also has a gigantic "hire me" button at the bottom too.

If your screen is sufficiently big, it shows up to the right of the blog post. I turned off adblock trying to figure out what was wrong with the ad placement before I resized the window. It should probably always show up to the right.

I didn't even notice the ad until reading through the HN comments. My eyes went directly to the red copy since it was centered in the page (and the ad, which apparently is there, is white and to the right).

It sits underneath the first paragraph on smaller screens (I've since added an extra sentence at the beginning.) It was unintentionally confusing in this case.

My screen is 1280x1024 which isn't /that/ small and it sits underneth the introudction.

I also thought it was related to the primary subject... and the real image, I thought was an error message from the advert company for clickabuse or something..

So when the author brings up usability and UI issues... should probably recitify those on his own site, before reaching out to others.

I saw the word sponsor and turned off adblock to see if that was the reason that word was there. Sure enough it was a distracting ad.

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