{"id":765,"date":"2006-11-27T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T05:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/adverts-or-prettiness\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T05:37:34","slug":"adverts-or-prettiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/adverts-or-prettiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Adverts or prettiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally read Planet MySQL from RSS, but for some reason I ended up on the actual site today in a Web Browser (Epiphany to be exact) and saw this:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"planetmysql-ugly.jpg\" id=\"image763\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/planetmysql-ugly.jpg?w=584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And thought, &#8220;wow, ugly&#8221;. I don&#8217;t keep my browser &#8220;maximised&#8221; because I think it&#8217;s a stupid way to work &#8211; I often switch between tasks or like to have an editor open while referring to something in a browser (e.g. some tech details of some source module), or monitor IRC or IM. I remembered that Epiphany has an Ad Blocking extension, so in an effort to de-uglify, I enabled it. I now see:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"planetmysql-pretty.jpg\" id=\"image764\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/planetmysql-pretty.jpg?w=584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hrrm&#8230; much better. Notice how the links on the left to the most active are actually useful now (I can read them).<\/p>\n<p>Note that this isn&#8217;t a rant on adverts on web sites &#8211; I can handle them (the google ones which aren&#8217;t obtrusive) &#8211; I&#8217;m against the uglyweb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally read Planet MySQL from RSS, but for some reason I ended up on the actual site today in a Web Browser (Epiphany to be exact) and saw this: And thought, &#8220;wow, ugly&#8221;. I don&#8217;t keep my browser &#8220;maximised&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/adverts-or-prettiness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-cl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":446,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/fancy-shortcuts-to-mysql-bugs\/","url_meta":{"origin":765,"position":0},"title":"Fancy shortcuts to MySQL Bugs","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-08-03","format":false,"excerpt":"So Elliot Murphy is talking about QuickSearch shortcut for bugs.mysql.com which is quite useful if you use Firefox. 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