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This is an ad. http://ad-assets.nytimes.com/paidpost/dell/will-millennials-... The entire article is an ad - you're saying you wouldn't notice this? The whole point of native advertising is that it's not easy anymore to tell what's advertising and what isn't. Only 41% of visitors realized that native ads were advertising at all. http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press...



Also read http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html for some more examples of how hard it is distinguish "ads" from other "real" content and news.


Thank you heaps for your comment! I'm not quite sure why I am being down-voted though. To clarify my browsing habits are at the point where if I do see an intrusive advertisement or something that is just words rather than a coherent bit of content I'm looking for.

I clicked your link and immediately closed it. Then opened, looked closely, and my eyes did not catch on to anything so I closed it again.

Your second link was very informative, interesting stuff though.

The rest of you can't tell me your browsing habits have not evolved enough to know what is which and this is that?


How would you even know? I can say that mine have not. Ars Technica started cross-posting articles from Wired, which I would rather avoid. But for weeks, I would only realize that I had clicked one when I got to the bottom of the article. It's just exhausting to check all the bylines all the time.


Tried your link and got:

Your request for http://ad-assets.nytimes.com/paidpost/dell/will-millennials-... was blocked. Block reason: Host matches generic block pattern.

Yep, definitely noticed it was an ad. One more reason to install Privoxy.



Thanks, didn't mean to request another. You can bypass Privoxy's filters with a click, but it's nice to know I have a huge warning page when I reach an ad article like that.


Ah, I don't really know anything about privoxy. I'm guessing the ad-assets domain is pretty easy to block at any rate.




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