Tonight while getting ready for my Podcast I removed a RSS feed from my regular reading list because of excessive advertising in the feed. I’m serious — the stupid ad TechCrunch has after every article in the feed measures 612 pixels in height.
Nothing like being stupid and making me see it after every article. This is abusive and I refuse to read his feed with that crap in it.
Turn on Adblock. That will deal with the type of ads that TechCrunch is using. Unfortunately, that won’t help with people like NetworkWorld, who are using even larger, embedded ads on every third post.
Tom’s Hardware is just as bad. Not only do they have a partial content RSS feed, but their partial content is usually just one or two sentences. Every couple of feed items is followed by another feed item containing nothing but an ad, which is usually longer than any of the actual content items.