Irony

196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

owl_herd @lemmy.blahaj.zone

3d ago

iruley

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Clearly you are using the 10th best ad blocker.
- OP is the one in ten dentist
- Websites hate this one weird trick. Number 10 will shock you.
ublock origin has an "annoyances" list that isn't enabled by default and removes some of these. highly recommend.
enable the cookie banners list while you are at it.
Ublock, could you please block scripts and frames on this webpage?
There, annoying popup gone.
- Firefox reader mode also works most of the time.
  
  Firefox reader mode is great. I started using it just to avoid having to tell sites to piss off with their cookies, and to dodge some paywalls, but now I use it on a lot of sites even when there aren't any dialogs to dodge.
  I actually prefer having articles take up my screen width rather than be all squashed into a skinny little column in the centre. It's also nice when trying to read someone's blog with questionable text colour.
  
  my reader mode icon has disappeared on two of my machines. i'm sure it's something in my settings that's propagated to both of them. i got tired of typing about:reader?url= in front of addresses and ended up using the "Toggle Reader Mode" extension. It has the nice side effect of working on some pages that reader mode didn't work on before.
  can't wait for them to start injecting ads into reader mode or to outright reject toggling the mode if some kind of advertising meta tag is present.
- Ublock also has an adblocker blocker
  
  Wouldn't that be an adblocker blocker blocker?
  
  A what?
- You can also just zap the pop-up if you’re using Ublock Origin
  
  Whats that
Gee, maybe if sites weren't 80% bullshit scripts and ads, MAAAAYBEEEEE, people wouldn't need adblockers so fucking much?? Crazy thought, right?
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
  Most websites used to have way fewer ads and we blocked them anyway because of the ads with malware and them being annoying when they did show up.
  So then people without ad blockers are shown even more ads. So then more people start to use more and more aggressive adblockers to deal with i truaivw ads, so corpos display more ads...and so on and so on.
  My point is that we have tried your suggestion. The Internet in 1998 was very different.
  
  In my uneducated view, the main problem is that ads are served by third parties, instead of the domain's owner. There is zero curation because said third parties literally don't fucking care, someone paid then it gets in the rotation.
  If ads were like in 1998, where the person messing with the site offered space on a specific part of the site and selected which ads would run, being responsible for them individually, offering a fixed position that didn't get in the way of the meat of the site, things wouldn't be such a shitshow. In other words, cut the ad server middleman. Yeah, lots of extra work on the maintainer and the ad-interested parties, but that'd result in a lot less blocking.
Way back in the early days of the Net, when we were all young, naive, had a full head of hair and pretty much every dynamic website out there was susceptible to SQL injections, I used to browse without an ad blocker, but with all the abuse in the form of pop-ups, pop-unders, page covering overlays, animated shit and even malicious payloads, I had to start blocking ads.
Never went back since.
uBlock Origin
Having an adblocker and whitelisting a website you want to benefit from ad revenue are not mutually exclusive.
- While i agree i can for the love of god not suffer any advertisement at all. I just hate it too much, i would rather not use anything having it.
- Don't give me that "We respect your privacy" bullshit logic.
  Every time that sentence is used is to lull users into giving up their privacy. If they actually cared about our privacy, they wouldn't have any need to ask for cookies. Plenty of websites that do respect your privacy, like Wikiedia, that never had a cookie wall.
  Same with ads. The only websites I would whitelist are the ones that don't shove ads anywhere.
- Sorta done with that. They try to take advantage too often.
When uBlock Origin doesn't remove adblock-detected popups, I just disable JS entirely on that site (thru no-script addon).
- ublock can disable JS
  
  I prefer NoScript for this because I can easily whitelist specific domains when a website doesn't work.
  
  Uh, neat
- I've gone to disabling JS by default, and only whitelisting sites that I want. It's made things much simpler for me.
  
  I thought of it too, but that way I should whitelist a lot of sites which doesn't load readable w/o js, a lot of sites I randomly visit just one time ever for one random thing. Would make my workflow just slower.
  Did you encounter a lot of broken by default sites w/o js? Or is it bearable? I could make the switch too.
Just enable the annoyance lists, I've not seen one of those pop-up in years.
Archive.is my beloved

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