As someone who never used an ad blocker, its always been like this.

But they ads to pay for seo engineers to get more traffic to show more ads.

This is the current metagame of the web, only people profiting are SEO engineers and ad services.

At this point, it will take hostile confrontation to turn the tide if advertisements and click-bait on the internet. We need to make it more expensive for advertisers, with less return.

i am at the point where i'm just letting this encourage me to use the internet less. my house is quieter, my mind is quieter.

search is dead. web is dead. apps are about to die. this is progress. i am looking forward for a web-free and app-free world. i cant even guess what mainstream websites are...i doubt you mean socialmediaplattforms which ask you to use their app. and even that will die as the smartphone will be replaced by assistants. neither my mother nor chinese citizens ever use websites.

It is since years. I use adblockers since 6+ years and it is crazy how people can just live without them.

Youtube as a platform is useless, completely useless. Take the raw video, use a normal feed. I understand why people use TikTok (even though the content often sucks), as Youtube is just bloat

"Using the Internet for the 1st time" (YouTube)

Wonder if article sites are thinking about turning the text into an image and injecting advertisements in between sections. 😀 👍