Comment by aresant | Hacker News Reader

Comment by aresant | Hacker News Reader

The best part about this 3-year old hack is that it's still working, on us this time :)

The story starts in 2012 when it was a "Adwords hack" ->

https://pando.com/2012/05/02/vungles-co-founders-hustle-thei...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/06/25/dont-try-t...

And the wheelworks started again in April of this year ->

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-linkedin-hack-that-turned...

I am writing the above with respect - I do the exact same thing, re-use and re-cycle great content as often as you can, it's a might harder to create the story than to perpetuate it and market it.

The basics are covered brilliantly in PG's "The Submarine" if you haven't seen it http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

yeah, it's been written about before, but I wanted to clarify the exact steps that I took, as the previous articles have been a bit hazy. Per the Pando article "Using a handful of techniques that he still seems to shy away from talking about" and as you highlight, an "adwords hack" is a very bad description.

I haven't read that article from PG, I'll definitely check it out!

Im really surprised this still works with the ubiquitous use of ad block in the tech circle.

Ad block isn't quite as ubiquitous as HN seems to think it is

I also don't know if it would apply here. As these are "native" ads to LinkedIn. They don't really label them as ads much. I guess if the <div> mentions ads then it might be blocked.

I dont use linkedin much but I just tested it and it blocked 4 ads on the page.

Which is why I qualified it with "within the tech circle", I'd be really surprised if the precentage of Ad block users on this forum was less than 80%.

If HN is like other tech sites, then it'll be more like 20% than 80%.

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-user...

My developer-oriented sites don't see abnormally high rates of ad blockers either.

If I like a site enough, I turn ad block off.

If the ads aren't annoying, I leave ad block off.

Adblock and any other plugin that manipulates the DOM interferes with web frontend work, also marketing work.

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