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This is selfish, but I don't mind what's happening with online advertisement industry. During the 2000s it went overboard and finally triggered the market respo
by old-gregg 10y ago
This is selfish, but I don't mind what's happening with online advertisement industry. During the 2000s it went overboard and finally triggered the market response I'm thankful for.
We have wonderful things like uBlock and yesScript that allow you to fine-tune your exposure to ads and Javascript with ease. My online experience is wonderful: clutter-free sites, fast loading times and my battery lasts forever due to minimal Javascript exposure.
The web audience has self-selected into two groups now: the ad-consuming and ad-blocking ones. You don't even need to be particularly tech savvy to opt to never see ads again. Nothing to be outraged about.
Even those parallax scrolling sites aren't a problem anymore: the second you see something fly to the left or zoom on you when you try to simply scroll down, reach out to that sweet yesScript button, and bam! - the insanity stops.
The only thing I found no easy answer for is those sticky CSS "navigation toolbars" that so many of sites started to roll out. These ridiculous contraptions sometimes occupy up to 30% of vertical real estate and I haven't found a blocker for those yet. 90% of the time they go away if you turn off Javascript for the offending site using yesScript, and in the remaining 10% a custom uBlock rule will do the job, which is a bit annoying.