Timeline for Is there a way to suppress the Collectives annotations?
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| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:47 | vote | accept | user2554330 | ||
| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:30 | comment | added | Zoe - Save the data dump Mod | "I do care about junk in the UI that distracts." - then you really want an ad blocker. SO constantly creates new UI junk. Not sure if they still do it, but one example is that they used to use announcement banners (AKA "look at me, this is very important") to announce new episodes of a (bad) podcast with no real significance to anyone. They'd trivially hit top 10 legitimate and high-profile sites (read: disregarding spam sites, and sites no one cares about) with the most annoying UI patterns. | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:28 | comment | added | Zoe - Save the data dump Mod | I don't work for Stack, for the record. Neither do any of the other mods; we're volunteers. I also have no reason not to recommend using one (among other things, Stack regularly abuses banners, and uses several dark patterns in various popups, they use Google analytics and ads, and happily provide user data to Google without really caring. Privacy-centric alternatives to all these systems exist, and they've opted not to use them, but that's a whole other discussion). Also, Stack has a solid income from companies via, among other things, collectives, teams, that new jobs replacement thing, ... | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:23 | answer | added | TylerH | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:20 | comment | added | user2554330 | @ZoestandswithUkraine: I don't use an ad blocker that could do that. It seems surprising that StackOverflow (who must get income from ads) would want to encourage me to learn to use one. | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:18 | history | edited | user2554330 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:17 | history | edited | TylerH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:16 | comment | added | user2554330 | @TylerH: Yes, the collective link that is shown just before the tag. But I already know that the tag r refers to the topic r, so it adds no new information for me. | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:16 | comment | added | Zoe - Save the data dump Mod | Use your favorite ad blocker to make the element disappear | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:14 | comment | added | TylerH | Can you share an example of a question tagged with r twice? I'm not seeing that. Are you referring to the collective link shown before the tags? | |
| Mar 3, 2023 at 17:07 | history | asked | user2554330 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |