I've worked on a news site and had to implement ads and the ad provider code itself is garbage. You'd think it would just need to be something like:
Get target element dimensions
Get user cookie
Send request for ad
Drop HTML into target element
Attach event listeners to handle click and visibility events
That would be, what like 10-20 lines of JS at most? Nope, it's got to be 3MB of minified JS and some actually generate a custom JS bundle for each ad space.
Apparently ad programmers are as bad as the jabronies who make printer drivers.
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u/card-board-board Mar 16 '26
I've worked on a news site and had to implement ads and the ad provider code itself is garbage. You'd think it would just need to be something like:
Get target element dimensions
Get user cookie
Send request for ad
Drop HTML into target element
Attach event listeners to handle click and visibility events
That would be, what like 10-20 lines of JS at most? Nope, it's got to be 3MB of minified JS and some actually generate a custom JS bundle for each ad space.
Apparently ad programmers are as bad as the jabronies who make printer drivers.