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.
Extend that from “advertisers” to “capitalists” and you’ll be much more correct.
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.
It’s been 3 hours.
It’s worse on mobile.
infinite tabs
Haha they never get closed
you can enable CSD in firefox to cut down on these titlebars a bit
CSD?
Block the elements with an ad blocker if it’s a site you frequent often .
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…
Guess you need to invest in a vertical 34" monitor
only 50%?
those are rookie numbers. I frequently come across sites that block around 75%
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
That sucks. As one of the workarounds I have vertical taskbar and tabs. Our screens have more horizontal space than we usually need.
Right click up on the toolbar and select “Customize Toolbar”. Uncheck “Title Bar” to get ride of the text at the top of the screen.
What does that have to do with ads?
It has to do with taking up screen space. “Advertising and headers take up …”. The title bar is sort of a header, so I posted how to remove it.
Then the ads and header will only take up 47% of the screen!
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?)
That’s a great idea.
50% so far
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.
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.
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.
