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I've mostly stopped reading websites on mobile because of this. On desktop I have various plugins and scripts in place to get rid of most of the annoyances. It
by dheera 4y ago
I've mostly stopped reading websites on mobile because of this. On desktop I have various plugins and scripts in place to get rid of most of the annoyances.
It's not only subscription popups these days, there are also the goddamn GDPR popups (which don't even apply to me), Intercom popups, and ads of sorts that pop up separately from the newsletter signup.
Very often within a few seconds these mobile websites have 80% of the content covered by sometimes 2 or 3 separate annoyances, at which point I generally think it's not worth dealing with them anymore and just quit.
- afterburner 4y agoFirefox mobile allows uBlock and noscript extensions.
- oblak 4y agoI refuse to do actual browsing without NoScript in place. No ads, no popups, nothing. Well, sometimes there's literally nothing, because SPA, but most of time it's just some kind of cover or body opacity set to 0. Totally worth the tradeoff on desktop and mobile. No ads, man. No fucking ads
- Wistar 4y agoI use NoScript and have for years but it sure gets exhausting to go to a site and find, in many cases, several dozen scripts that have to be "temp trusted" to get anywhere. I usually give up.