Other languages, take a look and follow this standard, please.
If they bother you enough, absolutely no one’s going to frown if you estimate how much they would be making on ads from traffic volume yearly, email the maintainer and suggest to pay that in return for turning off the ads for a year.
(Some people might frown if you just block the ads, since after all it is robbing a fellow open-source dev of some income.)
There are two points I am curious about:
— I would like to know if RTD forces the ads. Considering they have a business tier, it would be funny if they had to finance OSS project hosting from ads.
— EthicalAds started as an ad platform for developers, but apparently is now an “AI ad network”. I wonder if Python OSS project owners know about the 180 degree turn that’s happening there…
That said, readthedocs is a pretty nice platform to host your docs in a simple way. Plus users are not tracked. So personally I don't mind so much, but I'm going to have a look at the paid plan to remove ads for our users :)
Major tangent, but am I the only one who bristles at someone telling me how to pronounce an abbreviation they invented?
I must have encountered this a few times in brand marketing within the tech world and gotten pissed off at feeling manipulated.
And they didn't even come up with the gfx shorthand for graphics, its admittedly an old one and barely seen nowadays... But it's always been the sister to sfx/sound effects
Although that would have it expand to "Graph Effects" (hmm, that could be an interesting library), or "Graphic Effects".
But GFX expanding to simply "Graphics" has a history going back at least to the early 1990s, and even further:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Jy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%2...
Way back when I first read about nginx, I had absolutely no way to know that folks usually pronounced it "engine-X". Led to an embarrassing conversation where I and a coworker were completely at cross-purposes to one another.
Obviously there are a bunch of abbreviations with disputed pronunciations (gif/jif, SQL/sequel, etc), and since the creators weren't prescriptive about them, we're all free to argue about them for the rest of time...
I feel inclined (especially because they're trying to tell me otherwise) to pronounce it in a rather different way which I shall not make explicit here beyond saying that it splits as pyg/fx rather than as py/gfx.
It’s a sign, not a cop. Doesn’t seem like any undue pressure to control people, or prevent the reader from doing what they will with.
One wonders if the IPA pronunciations on Wikipedia is similarly bristling