Intrusive Website Ads

Users complain about excessive, shifting, and obstructive advertisements on websites that make articles nearly unreadable, especially on mobile, often recommending ad blockers.

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Sample Comments

theflyinghorse Sep 26, 2023 View on HN

I am sure that the article is fascinating. However, I could not get passed the ads. The text of the article loaded within a second, but then the ads started to appear pushing the text somewhere. Then cookies banner took up a solid 1/4 of the screen. Then some of the ads reloaded changing size. Horrendous experience that killed any desire to read the article itself

jes5199 Jul 18, 2019 View on HN

wow, that site’s ads are so invasive I can barely read the content

slicktux May 7, 2023 View on HN

So many ads just to read an article…

usepgp Sep 18, 2018 View on HN

There are ads on the front page designed to look like content.

TheMagicHorsey Sep 3, 2015 View on HN

The link has waaaaay too many ads. Almost unreadable if you don't run an ad blocker. The content provider should consider a more tasteful, smaller ad footprint. It might even increase ad engagement.

mattkrick Oct 1, 2025 View on HN

The ads made this unreadable. Is this a thing? Get to hackernews front page & then inject your post with as many ads as possible to “cash in”?

vood Feb 12, 2023 View on HN

Not related to the content, the amount of ads in this website makes the article barely readable, especially on mobile.

koen_hendriks Jan 23, 2024 View on HN

Wow those ads are intrusive, could barely find the start of the article let alone read it.

creativenolo Apr 13, 2025 View on HN

So hard to see the content sneaked in around the ads

nutbutter Jan 4, 2018 View on HN

It's impossible to read the article because of the ads.