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The author of the World Wide Web site TV Tattle has decided to quit from posting any more news items and links on the site after realizing the advertising revenue generated by the site was no longer enough "to pay the bills". I hope the author finds a better way to keep the site up, since he would love to keeping posting there.
 
I was so sad when I saw the notice at TVTattle. It was a great site that I checked a couple times a day for most of the past decade. No annoying hype or crazy graphics or cluttered screens. Just valuable links to Everything Televn.

I used to visit TVByTheNumbers daily, until it morphed into a cluttered, disorganized press-release hype-a-palooza when the owners sold out to Zap2It and left daily management of the site to interns. Maybe the TVTattle founder will find a way to bring it back or sell off the URL to someone who can carry on the site.
 
I loved TV Tattle, but some of their advertising was downright horrible. I had to employ sophisticated ad blockers just to be able to load the page. It's often covered in so many Flash ads and whatever else that it would crash my browser. In addition, some of its ads seemingly automatically redirected me to an advertiser site, even though I hadn't clicked on anything. At one time, Google even blacklisted the site because it was redirecting to sites containing malware.

I'm not sure what the solution is. I agree with this idea: http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads - Some advertising can be acceptable.
 
Johnathan said:
I loved TV Tattle, but some of their advertising was downright horrible. I had to employ sophisticated ad blockers just to be able to load the page. It's often covered in so many Flash ads and whatever else that it would crash my browser. In addition, some of its ads seemingly automatically redirected me to an advertiser site, even though I hadn't clicked on anything. At one time, Google even blacklisted the site because it was redirecting to sites containing malware.

I'm not sure what the solution is. I agree with this idea: http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads - Some advertising can be acceptable.
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Hitting Escape upon pageload in Opera helped me out, but yes, my love for TVTattle was tempered by the terrible pop-up ads. It reminded me of the bad old days of forums before AdSense, when pop-ups and pop-unders would flood every single page.


One of the problems I found in the last couple years was that most of the stories just linked back to Deadline, which is already on my RSS and Twitter feeds, so I'd end up reading the same story two or three times. And now with Google Reader going away I need to figure out a way to get my RSS (found a couple of solutions, but they're not there for me yet all the way).
 
Yay! Thanks for posting this. So many of the other TV news/link sites are flooded with silly recap articles, wacky network PR, and days-old info. Glad TVTattle found a new home.
 
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