On mobile it can be literally 75% of the screen https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20387049
Techcrunch isn’t even the worst offender…
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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.
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.
Extend that from “advertisers” to “capitalists” and you’ll be much more correct.
Estimates show we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures…
Can you remind me what this is from?
Ready Player One
Fiction once again being the manual…
don’t forget to manually enable the annoyances and cookie banners filters as they help a lot.
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.
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.
yeah i’m doing it through the dev console, still annoying.
It is disabled now for me on chrome. Forced to use ublock lite bs.
Why use Chrome in this day of enshittified Google?
Work, it’s easier.
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 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.
It’s been 3 hours.
3 hours is an insignificant amount of time to me >.<
He’s just gone out to buy cigarettes. He’ll be home any day now.
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…
you can enable CSD in firefox to cut down on these titlebars a bit
CSD?
i should have been clearer: client-side decorations.
boils down to not having a separate titlebar. by right clicking an empty spot in the tab bar and clicking “customize toolbar”, there will be an option to disable it, and get more vertical pixels of screen space. it will work more like windows and most linux environments. i don’t know why OP’s isn’t doing this by default, it should.
if you want even more vertical space, go to about:config, set compactmode to true, then a more compact ui will be available in the customize toolbar menu. vertical tabs are not bad either after you get used to them.
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)
Why is this not top comment? Reader mode first. Ublock zapper second. If that doesn’t work bye bye
They should add a per-site setting to use reading mode by default.
That’s a great idea.
Surprisingly safari does, but you should still use Firefox (maybe there is an extension?)
What resolution are you browsing at? I have a hard time showing that ad at all in my setup, but I’m not even at 4K and I get a HUGE picture of the rocket in question and still see more text than you show in the screenshot. That’s what? 720p?
I man, don’t get me wrong, ads are annoying, there’s a reason why I have so many layers of blocking I couldn’t even shut them all off to test this, but you seem to be browsing at what I’d call… legacy resolutions. You’d almost be better off twisting that screen 90 degrees and asking for the mobile version. Or, you know, you could lower the UI scaling in your display settings.
i’m at 1080p. the resolution is low but i need it that low because if i increase the resolution to make everything smaller, it’s too small for my eyes and it actually hurts my eyes. i need a big font, big icons, everything.
I’d strongly suggest running a higher resolution (if your monitor supports it) and just using the various scaling/accessibility options of your OS. I cannot handle raw 4k any more, but I’ve been running with it just fine at 150% scale for probably over a decade now, on various versions of Windows and Linux (XFCE and Plasma, mostly). Only the very rare ancient program from Windows XP days won’t scale properly, and even then you can just tell the window manager to scale the whole thing.
I say all this because things will literally be clearer and more legible if you run your monitor at native resolution and have the OS/browser render things larger. If your monitor is 1080p… well… I guess just know you shouldn’t have to fear being picky with a new one if/when the time comes!
Ah. That’s more of an accessibility issue than an advertising issue, then. I imagine even without ads a bunch of modern websites expecting higher resolutions and smaller scaling factors will look cramped.
I was not kidding before, if you have vision problems that don’t play well with desktop views, mobile versions of websites tend to be a LOT friendlier to large text sizes. Have you tried setting your browser to a vertical window and calling up the phone version? On Firefox at least you can set the resolution of the phone you’re emulating and zoom it all the way up. The setting is buried in the developer tools, but there are tons of tutorials out there (TLDR, press F12, look for the button that looks like a tablet/phone). I’ll try to add an image of what it looks like on my device for the site you shared.
yeah i guess the issue could also be solved with a larger screen (mine is currently A4paper sized) but i don’t have much space for it in my apartment, and also i don’t like the high cost and inflexibility of such a setup. i like my setup to stay small and flexible.
Block the elements with an ad blocker if it’s a site you frequent often .
It’s worse on mobile.
infinite tabs
Haha they never get closed
