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Ads on websites can be annoying on the desktop but on mobile it seems we are getting to the point where the sites are downright unusable. It’s almost like peak popup ads era of the web. This isn’t just dinky sites either. It seems even major news sites are like this too. I guess time to throw over to an RSS reader again or something which means they won’t even get my view impressions any longer. The enshitification continues unabated… #rant #enshitification
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in reply to Hank G ☑️

Simon W 🙄 🆙 ⚛️
Simon W 🙄 🆙 ⚛️
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I increasingly use "Reader mode" and if it won't show me the article in that mode I just don't bother.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
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I found most sites load fine without JavaScript. The text page loads fast without the chaos
in reply to Hank G ☑️

Will
Will
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just to be a contrarian, like steve jobs said, you're holding the phone wrong. So, don't patronize big news sites. Or, it takes two to tango. Of course i should talk because i rarely use mobile to read news. I guess what i'm saying is that people expect big sites to be nice, but they are self-interested. So the public has to quit patronizing them. It's totally weird to me that the public puts up with the enshitification. I gave up hope when facebook continues to violate all kinds of decency and yet billions of people tolerate it. Too weird.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

ferricoxide
ferricoxide
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I love on mobile when the ads either overlay the article-text or cause the article-text to be so misformatted as to be unreadable. Also great when you can read the text, but only 3 lines of it at a time. What's REALLY great is when the advertising makes it such that you're consuming 100MiB/hr just for the advertising. Bonus points for when it's a site you've actually paid to view - like NYT - yet are still also bombarded with data-sucking advertising. Further bonus points for sites that, if you turn off (data) will eventually cause the entire page to show a load-failure if one or more of the adverts can't be re-loaded (to get the next ad loaded into the overlay widgets). I also love how, when embedded adverts are different sizes, it causes the text you're actually there to read to continually move as the adverts' window-size changes and forces a page-redraw event.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

Will
Will
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@𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️ Good point, i'd forgotten to try no javascript on mobile. Just looked at slashdot, CNN, and CBS news. CNN and CBS seem ok. Slashdot won't load, says to use desktop.
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in reply to Hank G ☑️

Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
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I never see any ads on my cellphone - no data plan!
in reply to Hank G ☑️

𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
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I remember when slashdot was specifically written for a text browser. The layout was beautiful and had a design GUI browsers won't see. The Slashdot page looked like a candle flame. It was amazing. I guess those who maintain the site now had no idea...
in reply to Hank G ☑️

Will
Will
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Oh yeah, slashdot is just another of the big media companies now. Commander Taco is long gone :-)
in reply to Hank G ☑️

𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
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Taco really added value like a god. He brought us together in Atlanta for good beer and the absolute latest Linux technology and the wizards that could type out an entire application in a few minutes. We walked away completely different people. Many friends that went would become officers of big companies.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

Lisa Stranger (Friendica)
Lisa Stranger (Friendica)
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If you're willing or able to use Firefox, I adore uBlock (extension/plugin?). It's actually so effective that I have to leave it shut off in private windows so I can do my shopping!
in reply to Hank G ☑️

Will
Will
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I'm just glad there was a good long era where the internet nerds set the tone, established some good conventions. It's kinda gone to hell in a hand basket now, but could be worse. Verizon could be in charge of the internet or something. God i remember when verizon came up with their first mobile web browser based on some kludgey architecture. Thank god HTML saved the day.
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