• asdfranger@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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)

    • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      don’t forget to manually enable the annoyances and cookie banners filters as they help a lot.

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you have ublock origin you should be able to use the element picker to block that frame.

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Can you use uBlock Origin to remove the DIV for the ad? Or is it using randomly generate IDs?

    • keisatsu@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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

      • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        i should have been more specific: 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.

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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…

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Extend that from “advertisers” to “capitalists” and you’ll be much more correct.

    • Two9A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • pooberbee (they/she)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • rhvg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Ublock origin creates an anti-intext filter that filters out text with key phrases indicating an advertisement XD

    • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.