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Alt text: a screenshot of an article that is over 90% covered by ads.

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[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 56 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry to inform you that there might be some content leaking through your ads.

[-] yukichigai@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

Browsing the internet on mobile devices has gotten so bad in the last few years. It's all but guaranteed that at least quarter of the space on any website is going to be taken up by floating ads that don't move as you scroll. Some of them it's over half. I cannot understand how normal folks navigate the web without adblockers.

[-] limecyanide@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Yo, after I switched to Firefox, I realized its mobile app offers ad blocking add-ons for mobile. Holy shit was that a dealmaker for me. I actually want to browse the web on my phone again.

[-] LambLeeg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin is very powerful thing. It can remove link tracking (I posted links before if you're interested); it can remove parts of site; it can change JavaScript and its response. Basically, everything is possible.

[-] kingtysonsworld 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do I still need the "I still don't care about cookies" extension if I add the filter list?

[-] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

I was trying to learn c++ there was this really great and free site. I decided to turn ads on for them since everything was high quality and free.

There were a few ads that played, but they changed every few minutes. The ads were not the same width, so they they changed they pushed the text around.

So in the middle of reading all the text would jump around and make you lose your place.

It basically made their site completely unusable.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The intrusiveness of ads is bad, but the fact that code I don't want and didn't explicitly authorize is running on my machine is a massive security hole. Not too long ago hackers infiltrated the ad networks of major newspapers and replaced the ads with propaganda.

We have no idea how many times exploit code has been put on these ad servers. And we're just supposed to trust a bunch of sysadmins to make sure the javascript that lets them track us hasn't been replaced with something nefarious?

[-] Elw@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

For me the tipping point was when ads started becoming malicious. As long as ads are not static and are being served by unaudited and unregulated third parties, they have no home on my browser. I feel bad about it because I understand that some independent sites legitimately need the revenue but unless they provide information about how they vet their ad providers or they only serve static ads, I’m going to block them.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I realize you're not asking for help, but this person needs uBlock Origin or something similar to block the entire element, not just the ad content...

[-] mercurly@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good VPNs have adblockers.

Everyone on the Internet should have one now. Also a password generator.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago
[-] derock@lemmy.derock.dev 9 points 1 year ago

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[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I wonder how Firefox's new reader toggle would handle this. It basically strips things down to the core textual content of the page.

[-] kbity@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Works pretty well. Reader Mode is great at unfucking user-hostile site designs like this.

[-] mercurly@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

God bless Firefox reader mode.

[-] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

ads were a terrible monetization strategy from the start. I've never felt bad about adblocking, if you require payment for upkeep offer me a subscription service.

[-] Mandy@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Is that a joke im too desktop PC to understand?

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Due to garbage like this I started using NextDNS, though I still feel bad about ad blocking.

I wanted to use HDMI capture card with my phone, and it only worked with one app. An app that displayed ads over the content.

[-] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I AdBlock per-site, everything white listed by default

This bullshit would be an definite enable-adblock

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? I'm just excited to learn more about Fehirliff

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