Sorry if this pic is a bit blurry. I took a photo of my colleges computer screen from my phone.
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Low key infuriating how accurate this experience is
The sides are missing ads and also the text needs to be interrupted with ads after every paragraph.
Also the ad that is blocking the text but has a tiny close button that is difficult to hit on mobile is missing.
At the end there should be previews of further articles which are, you guessed it, ads.
If it is more ad than news I’d say this an ad site that happens to have some news.
Yup. And the thing that kills me about this is they are all ads for the exact same company.
This oughta help
Several times now, I’ve sent people I knew links to articles that looked perfectly fine to me, but turned out to be unusable ad-ridden garbage to them.
Since then, I try to remember to disable uBlock Origin to check what they’ll actually see before I share any links.
You know, I never thought about that until now. Not that I send that many links out, but still another thing to think about.
This happens to me when I switch to the work VPN. Any websites I had open start flooding with ads.
I use DNS to block ads but unfortunately I need the DNS from the VPN to access stuff.
and then some sites have audacity to ask for turning off adblocker
It looks pretty good for a picture of a screen.
Gross, someone injected news into this ad site.
I bet on mobile it is even worse!
Using a web browser on your phone is almost completely useless these days what with how messed up the formatting is and how many endless ads there are. The most irritating thing is how a lot of news sites don’t even both including images of their news stories. Probably to save the bandwidth. I’ve noticed stories which referred to photos or drawings and none were visible on mobile. Of all media formats, one would think a web browser on a high resolution screen would be a great one to depict images. Nope. At least not on a lot of sites. They probably prefer to use that space for more ads, I think.
I use Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin and the ads don’t even download. Saves on bandwidth and makes the web usable.
I might have to look into that, but even if the ads all went away, the formating for mobile sites is atrocious.
No doubt. For a huge proportion of sites I just use the desktop version plus pinch to zoom
I actually just stayed using kiwi browser since it’s a chromium fork that supports plugins on Android. Ublock and some other choice extensions are going pretty well for me so far
Blocking ads at the DNS level works perfectly for me on iOS. I use a
.mobileconfigto set up TLS DNS to my DNS server hosted on Fly.Some of those words mean something to me.
It was literally always like this. Newspapers had a large fraction of material content dedicated to full and half page ads and regularly included entire sections of an ad as ‘sponsored content’. Half the remainder is PR placement and the other half is establishment propaganda and weather and sports. It was always this way.
Sooo your average news site now.
And they wonder why people don’t visit News sites
That’s how all the tech sites have gotten, by the way. Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors… all devoting huge space to Amazon Prime ads masquerading as journalism. Amazing that Amazon pulled this off through their affiliate program.
I hope there are alternatives for news, because this looks horrible
Only “mildly” infuriating??
lmao, right? This moves beyond “mild” to plain ol’ infuriating imo.
The Capitalist idea of Utopia.
