Tell HN: Techcrunch WTF

by dawie on 1/26/2010, 11:53 PM with 7 comments

Techcrunch now as a welcome page with a massive advert that you have to skip to read their blog. This is brutal and they are basically doing what the newspapers they dispise are doing. Brutal!

  • by danw on 1/27/2010, 1:03 AM

    That is an useless link baiting headline. Recommend changing it. An honest "TechCrunch begins showing interstitial adverts" would probably evoke a more interesting debate.

  • by koanarc on 1/27/2010, 1:49 AM

    At first I assumed they had been hacked again and just closed the tab. I checked the source the next time around, but I wonder how many other ad-blocking readers only saw a "Skip This Ad" link and did the same.

    It's not like I really needed another iTablet rumor fix today, anyway.

  • by seldo on 1/27/2010, 1:11 AM

    Interstitial ads are incredibly user-hostile; these ones actually have a bug right now and so fail to respect the original URL -- so you try to visit a particular article on TC and get bounced to the front page. Awful.

    Either TC is having profitability problems or Arrington is getting greedy, and I really couldn't tell you which is more likely.

  • by nym on 1/27/2010, 12:55 AM

    Tell HN what exactly?

  • by treblig on 1/27/2010, 12:57 AM

    Wow, talk about moving in the wrong direction.

    As if all of the flashing ads on the right weren't enough.

  • by mortenjorck on 1/27/2010, 1:08 AM

    I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing that I didn't notice.

  • by zworks on 1/27/2010, 1:11 AM

    yet an other reason to read TC from my RSS reader