Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/415259/native-ads-coming-soon-to-stack-overflow-and-stack-exchange

12•exploraz•1h ago

Comments

conartist6•32m ago

Wow. Lol, the Internet is becoming a better and better place all the time!

I can't believe we keep making progress. You know. Things get better and better as time goes on. Right?

Right?

...... Right?

inesranzo•25m ago

Ads should not exist at all.

They are psychological, manipulative, influencing tools. It's like an annoying wasp that appears out of nowhere and follows you around.

Nobody asked for this.

When this comes to StackExchange, use a PiHole and protect yourself from this barrage of irrelevant ads.

Iolaum•19m ago

Ads are also used as infection vectors by spyware now. See:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/int...

Note: Ctrl + F: malicious advertisements

as the purpose of the post was not to highlight that fact. But given that Google is an advertising company and they still mention it ...

throwaway77385•19m ago

Ads, which are the sole reason for the attention-grabbing-at-all-costs society we find ourselves in, are, in my opinion, one of the greatest cancers to ever befall us.

technothrasher•2m ago

> Nobody asked for this.

Well... the advertisers did.

mono442•21m ago

LLMs have mostly replaced Stack Overflow for me. I wonder if this is true for other people too.

igilism•8m ago

Absolutely, I much rather push docs into LLM when really needed, it works miles better than googling and/or SO, especially for smaller tasks

ourmandave•21m ago

Bummer there's no one in that audience that can write a plug-in or something to block them.

throwaway77385•20m ago

If they'd protected their knowledge from AI crawlers before it was too late, they might stand a chance, but in this climate, they're just adding nails to their coffin.

oytis•17m ago

Very weird writing trying to convey that the ads are at the same time indistinguishable from the useful content and clearly distinguishable from it

illusiveman•7m ago

Does stack overflow still exist?

I mean, it's there any genuine case you can cover with SO that you cannot with your favorite LLM?

Because where a LLM falls short is in the same topic SO fell short: highly technical questions about a particular technology or tool, where your best chance to get the answer you were looking for is asking in their GitHub repo or contacting the maintainers.

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