The Fucking ad covers the content I literally could not get back into his comic strip because of the Fucking unremoveable ad covering the content. Guess time for that ad blocker.

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Idk. Sure, use an ad blocker, but the medium is also content - if the comic author wants their site to be so full of ads that their content is unreadable then tbh I’m probably going to give up reading. Ads like that don’t just happen by accident - ad placement is just as much an artistic decision as the colour palette they use

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      10 months ago

      Not all webcomic authors are also well versed in web design. There’s a good chance this is a WordPress theme for comics and a plug-in for ads, maybe with more third party add-ons.

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        10 months ago

        Then you load up your site, go “oh, those ads make my site look like garbage”, and turn the plugin off. Ads don’t magically appear, someone has to actively decide that they want them and that they are happy with the trade off for user experience

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          10 months ago

          While that’s true, there’s also the “Works on my machine” effect.

          It might’ve been less obstructive on their pc than on op’s

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            10 months ago

            yeah OP has an ultra wide. the ad probably calculates size with a percentage.

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          10 months ago

          Browser gets a vote when it comes to HTML. Loading the site on your browser might not look the same as it does on someone else’s.

          Hell… The author could have an adblock plugin themselves… :)

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        10 months ago

        If that is the Something Positive I read a decade ago he should know how to make a website by now, and it was not that bad back then.

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      10 months ago

      Got ad blocker now can read the comics. Maybe it was a sign for me to finally get one. I use to not be bothered by them plus figure how artists gets funds outside of Patron but goddamm never was they that bad.

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      10 months ago

      People publish their comics into platforms nowadays, and if the author uses an ad-blocker, they may not even know how the comics appear in a naive browser.

      But, continuing there or not, the OP is well advised to install a blocker, just like everyone else. Both for information security reasons (many of those ads are nasty for your computer) as for personal health reasons (many of those ads are nasty for your brain). All of those being attacks that nobody ever consented to (as they are forced into you without a chance for you to consent).

      And rest assured, all of that is only getting to become worse on the near future.