>loads ads before article >still loads something after 5 minutes >article space is literally half of screen >article is unironically and literally left-leaning >share button that no one uses is distrubing the article >webpage quality is shit >article quality also is unironically shit
God I miss late-2000s no-bloat no-hassle full-of-rich-content webpages.
money came in, passion went out clearnet is a wasteland and theres no turning back
Dominic Moore
javascript and css happened, hipsters think they look smart with their 500MB of imported scripts and style sheets that makes the page look like shit
but mostly this
Kevin Morris
If only the clearnet was a wasteland, with a wasteland you have freedom Clearnet is really a big corpocracy where all the big internet corporations squander competition in favor of their propaganda and spyware
Evan Murphy
At this point if you still see ads online then you have no right to complain about them. It's like bitching about cars almost running you over because you choose to walk in the middle of the road instead of just learning to use the sidewalk.
Cameron Lewis
actually it's more like cars started driving on the sidewalk and you have to use adblock to walk on the powerlines
Luke Lee
Yeah, but I can still complain about all the "content" itself really being more elaborate advertisements. Which is kind of the product of ad blocking, but let's not kid ourselves, it would have happened anyway.
Dylan Perry
Not really. Considering the history of roads as a means of foot traffic, the extremely common knowledge that most roads are no longer safe for foot traffic, and the ease with which you can block ads with one click, the original analogy makes more sense.
Jeremiah Nguyen
OP here. I have a fucking content blocker which ironically can’t block this ad.
Blake Kelly
So you don't have uBlock Origin or uMatrix. The absolute state of Jow Forums.
>click link from google search that seems useful >see page for 1 second before a full page popup opens trying to guilt me into turning off my ad blocker >can't click the "continue anyway" button because the bottom third of the page is covered by a gdpr cookie consent notification >accept cookies because they'll be blocked anyway >click the now visible "continue with ad blocker enabled" button >another massive popup opens as a last ditch effort to try and guilt me into disabling ad blocker >click close button >immediately redirected through 2 mangled domain names >then 3 different ad/tracking/telemetry gathering domains >click browser's stop loading button for great justice >phew, it stopped >try to go back to the google search >browsing history is now just a few hundred links back to one of the scam domains >have to force close browser because some javascript script is still running and making the browser use a suspiciously large amount of the CPU >forget what I was even searching for
While I agree with the sentiment, you can make 90% of the garbage on webpages disappear with umatrix.
Josiah Stewart
i know this feel all too well.
Jayden Jenkins
>They use carbon black at work >It's shit >VMWare is shit too This can only go well.
Jaxson Murphy
It's the same shit it was before, but now you have guulag & friends spying your ass.
Brody Edwards
Just use open links in a new window if it's so hard for you to use the internet.
Gavin Brown
How about """muh SEO""" >Want to replace my furnace by myself instead of being cucked by the HVAC jew >All Google search results are just SEO plants by various HVAC companies all across the countries about when to call them And this is one of those topics that they don't want you to research so I can't find jack shit on it. Guess I'll be going to the literal library
Wyatt Kelly
sometimes the sites are responsive and you can get away with blocked certain elements using an ad blocker.
itoddlers like you should be dragged out and shot.
Christopher Bailey
you can block the popup with your adblocker
Cooper Young
Isn't that iOS you're using? If so, why not use SnowHaze to kill all 3rd party Javascript? If it's a desktop, then just use something that allows uMatrix, and kill all 3rd party Javascript by default.
Robert Flores
Use diy keyword
Elijah Lewis
Is there any other websites like Techcrunch, but for other types of news? Not just technology news.
Jaxon Morris
Yes, there are other news sites, many of which do not focus on technology.