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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I hate websites like this, I'm reading the article, and as I scroll through reading it, it starts to talk about something closely related but not quite the topic of the article, then it gets further and further from the point.

Then finally you realise it's just feeding a bunch of DIFFERENT articles to you, making them look like they're just subsections of the first article.

Especially as the first article seems to be incredibly short and ends abruptly without including the one bit of content they said they'd include, and there's no reasonable separator or footer or spacer or anything to separate the article from the next one.

Eventually you realise they've wasted your time and duped you and you vow to never look at that website again, but christ, it's annoying.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago

Just in case no one bothered to check: This website is satire. The list is not there, because that's the joke. Not a good one but, oh well.

If you don't believe me: From the About section:

Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This article has a comment section, so it's very clear where the article ends. I checked on both mobile and desktop, and it's there on both.

I agree in general, but this page isn't confusing whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Where would that comment section be, exactly?

[–] AGD4 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can confirm the Conversations section is blocked by uBlock Origin on the Android mobile Firefox browser. Is that what you're using, by chance?

Kind of an odd thing for the add-on to target.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do use that, yes.

Really kind of a strange thing to block, might actually be worth reporting to uBlock.

[–] AGD4 6 points 11 months ago

kind of a strange thing to block

After checking the "conversations", I see several work-from-home scam comments. Maybe it's best to keep it blocked, lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I see a section called "Conversation" between the article text and the Hasbro section. It did take a second or so to load, but it loaded.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, this isn’t just a problem with not recognizing satire, but it is a problem with shitty websites that are nothing more than vectors for an absolute megafuck ton of ads. That site was 100% garbage. And more websites are fusing articles together under what appear to be subheadings but are actually whole ass titles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Wow. Anyone else want to write way too much about how they completely missed the joke?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I agree with the criticism in general, but this one has a comment section below the article. That's a pretty clear indication that this article has ended.

Those crappy sites that OP is complaining about don't have anything separating articles.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jesus. It’s a sad commentary on how far society has fallen when a small paragraph is considered “writing way too much.” And I wasn’t the person you initially replied to. I didn’t even read the article because the site was such a cancer. I opened reader and it ended up opening a different article so I just bailed on the whole thing. I was adding to the conversation by talking a little about he trend I’ve noticed to rope people into spending more time on sites (read: getting more ad money). Although, I’m sure I’ve lost you at this point in this novel of a paragraph, so I might as well be saying “blah blah blah blah”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Good luck out there my friend