Inside Hong Kong's insanely cramped and illegal "coffin homes"

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The ad networks are sleazy and careless enough that the staff has established a dedicated thread to discuss and alert them to crappy ads:

Ads - we know, we know

I’ve been getting no end of messages, here at the BBS or back at the main site, about these ads that steal focus, scroll down and play, often with sound. To be 100% crystal clear: We do not support ads that autoplay with sound, or that steal your focus, pop up or otherwise affect your reading of the site. The problem is, in the modern world of programmatic and remnant ads, very many orgs are involved in displaying a given ad on a page. egregious content ads tend to be quickly squashed because …