Comment by romaniitedomum | Hacker News Reader

Comment by romaniitedomum | Hacker News Reader

Very off-topic, but there's something very odd on that page. There's these meta tags:

  <meta data-preact-helmet name="description" content="Dominate The Male Enhancement Niche Today with Aizen Power The following joke was posted to an internal Magenic list. I don&#x27;t know who actually wrote it, and I&#x27;ll give credit if someone points out the creator of the joke. It perfectly illustrates what I think developers (especially consultants) have to go through all the time when they&#x27;re interviewing for the next gig.">

  <meta data-preact-helmet name="twitter:description" content="Dominate The Male Enhancement Niche Today with Aizen Power The following joke was posted to an internal Magenic list. I don&#x27;t know who actually wrote it, and I&#x27;ll give credit if someone points out the creator of the joke. It perfectly illustrates what I think developers (especially consultants) have to go through all the time when they&#x27;re interviewing for the next gig.">

Then, the body contains:

  <span>Dominate The Male Enhancement Niche Today with </span><strong><a href="https://getaizenpower24.com/start/index.php#aff=aboel3z" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Aizen Power</a></strong>

Looks like a link to a really sleazy ad, but the name of the product is put into metadata seemingly to improve its SEO.

Ask off as we’re talking about off topic substack shenanigans… I absolutely deplore the pop up on every single substack blog trying to get me to subscribe after, what, 100-200 words? I have no idea who the author is or what the article is even about at this point. I will not be subscribing. I’m definitely not logging in. It’s ridiculous and completely cheapens the content.

I just click back when they do that. The articles are almost never that valuable anyways.

This one prompted me at the end of the article which seems fairly reasonable to me, also not a popup but just a section I could scroll by. I hope that they keep this system going.

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Edit: might be a one off.

Do you know if these ads are injected or if the authors are doing this? This is really gross.

To be honest the whole article seems like backlink spam. If you look with your eyes at the rendered article, you'll see a link to the supplement at the top, some links to a book about carpenters when it says "carpenter", and a extended blurb about the supplement at the bottom. (the original was on a personal site: https://web.archive.org/web/20230325234744/http://www.jasonb...)

Oh, wow, the original is from 2004, with an update in 2013. This Substack article is backdated to the "Update" date in 2013, and it's the only article on the substack at all.

I have a strong suspicion that Jason Bock did not create this substack, and someone is using his name and the content he posted years ago to push sketchy products.

May we change the HN link to the source article ?

Briefly looking at a few other substack sites, I don't see anything like this, so I assume that the author added it.

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