Salon Goes For Annoying Jump-Through Ads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 27, 2001 @07:36AM from the nyeah-nyeah dept.

macsforever2001 writes: "It looks like Salon is going to try to ram ads down our throat in a very offensive manner according to this Yahoo article. Now they won't directly link to articles, but instead link to a Web Ad which then links to the article you want. I think Slashdot needs a new category just for Web Advertising." Not as if web ads weren't already becoming more annoying, but the companies that run Web ads are probably as interested in ads that people don't hate as you are in not seeing the awful ones. What can we tell them?

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easy way to get rid of the ads by sl0ppy · 2001-09-27 07:44 · Score: 1, Offtopic

try a product like JunkBuster, or GuideScope

both are easy to use, and should take care of those pesky ads. why whine, when you don't even have to see them?
Workaround by lpp · 2001-09-27 08:11 · Score: 2, Offtopic

Apparently, if you take any of their story links and tack on "?x" it takes you straight to the story, skipping the ad.

Perhaps someone could make an add-on like junkbuster that would modify any URL at a given domain via a rule (s/.*salon\.com/$1?x/) or somesuch?