Sorry if this pic is a bit blurry. I took a photo of my colleges computer screen from my phone.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    only ever really see ads when I’m at work. all the things are blocked at home & on phone.

  • Izzy
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    492 years ago

    If it is more ad than news I’d say this an ad site that happens to have some news.

    • StrikerOPM
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      32 years ago

      Yup. And the thing that kills me about this is they are all ads for the exact same company.

  • animist
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    -12 years ago

    So are ars technica and gizmodo, which are also just giant Apple advertisement sites

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      That’s only because the app is making them money by stealing all the personal info it can from your device instead.

  • Meow.tar.gz
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    12 years ago

    Pure clickbait! I’m not even going to bother heading to it.

  • MisterMoo
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    52 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    222 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      You know, I never thought about that until now. Not that I send that many links out, but still another thing to think about.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      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.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          Ooh yeah, I never thought about that. While I disagree with some of my funcitonals, I don’t die inside knowing it’s going to be painful to people viewing ads.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    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.

    • cerothem
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      52 years ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Blocking ads at the DNS level works perfectly for me on iOS. I use a .mobileconfig to set up TLS DNS to my DNS server hosted on Fly.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      I use Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin and the ads don’t even download. Saves on bandwidth and makes the web usable.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        I might have to look into that, but even if the ads all went away, the formating for mobile sites is atrocious.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          No doubt. For a huge proportion of sites I just use the desktop version plus pinch to zoom