(1) Obnoxious ad for people looking for an “afro introduction” (2) 5 share buttons stacked on top of each other (3) Animated IMU ad.
Compare this to the design of a Speakerdeck detail page.
P.S. I desaturated the screenshot and put the opacity low as not to deface my website.
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An adblocker should solve two of your problems ;-)
Also no fullscreen on speakerdeck is a pitty.
SpeakerDeck indeed has less clutter (read: ads), yet I still prefer presentations from SlideShare though. Here’s why:
- Links aren’t clickable in SD
- All slides are images (no text recognition) in SD
- No fullscreen support in SD
The first one is the real deal-breaker to me.
@Ilias I don’t run Adblockers, I want to see the web as intended by the people creating websites. Also, it sometimes interferes with my job, and you don’t really want to hunt down a CSS bug when it was your Adblocker messing with the layout (e.g. on ad-heavy news sites).
@Bramus Good points, the no-link clicking is indeed pretty much a deal-breaker. Let’s hope the Speakerdeck team can solve the current issues.
Otherwise it’s indeed still a better idea to go for Slideshare (even with the ads :().
I completely understand your view on this but just like I’m able to ignore billboards on the street or change channels on tv I want to be able to “ignore” annoying ads on the web.
I don’t have any problem with ads that are less obtrusive (and more relevant) like google’s textual ads or services like the deck.
I do have a problem on the other hand with more annoying ads that for example take over the complete page.
Using an rss-reader or somekind of service like Instapaper could be also considered as a way of ad-blocking.
Power to the user. :)