Estimates show we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures…
Fiction once again being the manual…
Can you remind me what this is from?
Ready Player One
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Advertising being allowed to become the dominant monetization method for the internet was a mistake.
I’ve never seen anything that makes most of its money from advertising that doesn’t get worse and worse for it over time as a result. Once you let the advertisers in they will ruin whatever it is they are being allowed to leech off of. Might take 1 year, might take 20, but once they get that foot hold they will run it into the ground because like a billionaire and money, it is never enough.
So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect “ad-unsafe” works that wouldn’t get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.
So we tore the ads back out, traffic’s recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we’re doing better without ads than we were with ads.
that’s the thing. People will generally support a service they like. If it has ads, most people won’t like it and thus won’t support it.
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You will soon miss the display banner as it’s at least honest for being an ad. AI will soon have ads weaved in the text itself.
Ublock origin creates an anti-intext filter that filters out text with key phrases indicating an advertisement XD
I’d rather have ads placed in the text in a context that makes sense than the abomination of a system we have now that is both intrusive and irrelevant.
I’d rather have manipulative content placed in the text in a context that makes sense than the abomination of a system we have now that is both intrusive and irrelevant.
If you have ublock origin you should be able to use the element picker to block that frame.
yeah i’m doing it through the dev console, still annoying.
Since using ublock origin I can’t remember the last time it didn’t automatically hide those now empty elements.
I’ve had to use it a few times on non-english sites but I agree, most of the time ublock handles those automatically.
It is disabled now for me on chrome. Forced to use ublock lite bs.
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Work, it’s easier.
YMMV but switching to vertical tabs might be an improvement. Especially with such a wide screen, and since most websites (especially articles) only use a narrow column in the center, it’s been great for me.
huh, interesting thought :D
That’s why reading mode exists, I use it all the time when I see sites as cluttered as this. Great feature.
(It’s the little rectangle icon near the bookmark button, on the navigation bar)
They should add a per-site setting to use reading mode by default.
Surprisingly safari does, but you should still use Firefox (maybe there is an extension?)
Why is this not top comment? Reader mode first. Ublock zapper second. If that doesn’t work bye bye
Just get a bigger screen. But you can’t buy bigger screens these days except as smart TVs or monitors… And those smart screens can detect when you aren’t interacting with them and display ads…
Lmao people still using the internet like this is wild.
i don’t use ad-blocker, instead i just avoid websites if they’re too ad-ridden, like youtube.
Why though?
uhm, i’m not sure how to respond to that. let me think about it for a long while.
The question isn’t why you avoid sites that use ads, it’s why you don’t have an ad blocker for the one-off situations that you do, like this one.
Or did you go to that particular article on techcrunch as part of your routine of checking if you made the right choice to avoid such sites?
Clearly sometimes you have to go to those sites, and when you do, you’re exposing yourself to ads, tracking, and potential malware unnecessarily…
It’s been 3 hours.
3 hours is an insignificant amount of time to me >.<
It’s also way faster to browse with an adblocker because your browser isn’t connecting, downloading and processing a bunch of images and scripts to present that bullshit. Like 80% faster.
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CSD?
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50% so far
It’s worse on mobile.
infinite tabs
Haha they never get closed
Techcrunch isn’t even the worst offender…
ikr
Space dot com is, at least on mobile, completely covered in ads. Makes me question the legitimacy of their articles.
space.com is completely over-hyped. i read many of their articles and they’re typically mediocre at best. a lot of clickbait just for the ads.
Block the elements with an ad blocker if it’s a site you frequent often .
Can you use uBlock Origin to remove the DIV for the ad? Or is it using randomly generate IDs?
If its predictable at least partly you can hide it with ublock origin and something like ##div[class^=“classThatContainAds”]
edit: But I didn’t have to, it was removed automatically
