Want to learn about Roth 401K contribution limits for 2013? A website called mydollarplan has an article that answers your questions. But in order to get to their article, you first have to get through this: Blocked with Ghostery (and in the … [Read more]
Thrillist
Thrillist, which describes itself as "Digital Lifestyle for men - Everything worth caring about in food, drink, and travel," but which seems to be a food porn site, didn't bother me when I visited their home page. But as soon as I clicked to read an … [Read more]
Globes
Globes is an Israeli business newspaper with an English version that I seldom visit because I'm kind of scared of the way that Israelis do business. Today I followed a link to a Globes article when someone shared it on Twitter, but instead of seeing … [Read more]
Time
Sometimes I just want to read an article about Senator Paul (R - KY) in Time magazine. And sometimes Time magazine would rather prevent me from reading their article by shoving into my face not one, but two annoying nags: … [Read more]
New Republic
The New Republic has an article about the Malaysian airplane that disappeared a week ago. But if you go to their site to read the article, you'll see this instead: They want to know whether I agree or disagree with this proposition: "The world … [Read more]
WPBeginner
WPBeginner wants to know if I want to Learn WordPress (their weird capitalization, not mine): No, I don't. I just wanted to find some information that was in an article on the WPBeginner site. And since they bothered me before giving me what I … [Read more]
WPMU
I was looking for a way to change the way that WordPress handles usernames and got to WPMU. This is what I saw there: Blocked with Adblock Plus. … [Read more]
MM&M
Have you ever heard of MM&M? I hadn't until a few minutes ago, when I read a work email saying that my company had been mentioned in an article there. But this is when I saw when I clicked on the link to read the article: I didn't stay to read … [Read more]
Harvard Business Review (mobile web)
I went to read an article on the Harvard Business Review on my iPhone and was confronted with this monstrosity: I closed the window and didn't read the article. … [Read more]
Prof.Blur
I downloaded this app to try making an iPhone photo blurry. Before I got to use it, they were already nagging me: I didn't spend a lot of time trying out the app. … [Read more]