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Sometimes I do go for the content. Oftentimes this is only to be unable to access it because all the ads bring my browser to its knees, or even crash it. Yeah,
by bunderbunder 11y ago
Sometimes I do go for the content. Oftentimes this is only to be unable to access it because all the ads bring my browser to its knees, or even crash it.
Yeah, I suppose the makers of these ads would suggest the solution to this problem is that I spend a few hundred to a thousand bucks on some shiny new electronics. Funny how they manage to be both the cause of and the solution to the problem.
Instead I use an adblocker. And I try to be choosy about which ads I block, so that it's only the really obnoxious ones that kill my battery life or are a thinly veiled vehicle for digging through my kitchen wastebin for fingernail clippings to collect. I feel no sense of guilt about this.
If they don't want me accessing their site over this, and curating their ads to be less corrosive is not an option for whatever reason, then perhaps they can set up a special clickthrough agreement asking me to consent to abusive treatment before I view the content. Perhaps that will make it easier for us to negotiate a mutually satisfactory arrangement.
- tracker1 11y agoExactly, and why android desperately needs ad blocking ability... So many sites are downright unusable on mobile phones. I'm not a big apple fan, and definitely not into walled gardens... that said, I avoided even considering apple early on because I didn't like AT&T... not I'm considering an iPhone for my next phone, just so I can have ad blocking.
- chowells 11y agouBlock Origin runs just fine on Firefox Android.
- tracker1 11y agoToo bad my experience is Firefox Android doesn't run just fine on its' own.
- mixedCase 11y agoI've been using with greater success than Chrome for a long long time now. I also run HTTPS Everywhere on it. Really, after using it for some time I can't see how people who have used a browser with plug-ins on the desktop can stand using one without them on mobile.
- jinst8gmi 11y agoIt tends to crash for me, but I still use it.
- buserror 11y agoThat's why I stopped browsing from my phone and tablet. Completely. I read some headlines, and if I remember, I read them again using the desktop browser.