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> I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads In my case, I browse a limited number of web sites that offer no ads (or a min

by danwee 4y ago

> I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads In my case, I browse a limited number of web sites that offer no ads (or a minimum amount). The moment I visit a web site with tons of ads, I just close it immediately and just ignore my original intention of visiting that website (e.g., this happens sometimes in HN: people link websites of newspapers, but I don't last in them more than 2 seconds)

amf12 4y ago
For other websites, Chrome based browsers have a reader mode setting. I just use that.
unicornporn 4y ago
> I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads People don't browse, they app.
- BbzzbB 4y ago
  Even then, most apps are just thinly veiled webapps for which the site (with Firefox and uBlock) provides the same or superior experience, ad-free.
  - NavinF 4y ago
    Er no, most iOS apps are not thinly veiled webapps. Have you ever used iOS?
    - judge2020 4y ago
      Most apps are moving to React Native especially if they're targeting Android and iOS, but that's still a far cry from being a wrapper around a webapp.
      - raydev 4y ago
        I think this is only true for small biz. All the big names quietly or publicly abandoned their efforts to fully migrate to React Native, focusing only on the most simple use-cases/views if they do keep it around. Even with the smartest people working on it, it's tough to keep React Native performant.
      - BbzzbB 4y ago
        Sorry I didn't express that clearly FWIW, didn't mean that literally. It's just that most apps people use are pretty much the same as their respective websites. All of FAAMG's websites work as perfectly fine replacement to the apps, even better, IMHO, when you get rid of the ads apparatus.
  - xorcist 4y ago
    Except when said web site detects your mobile web browser, and serves a page telling you to download their app instead.
    - gowld 4y ago
      AdBlocker + desktop mode or User Agent Switcher blocks that
    - BbzzbB 4y ago
      That's half of the point of having uBlock Origin. Use the zapper to disappear an element for the session, use the picker to poof them forever. They really work on making their webapps as unbearable as possible, but you can get rid of it to make them webapps great again. Can even add sites/pages as home app icons. Which makes Firefox the obviously better mobile browser, Chrome seems like a pretty strong case of defaults' power. Tho gotta add the "Google Search Fixer" select addon because they sure doesn't want you to get summary cards, financial charts and other goodies if you use a competitor browser. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and co without the ads circus. Duolingo without daily activity limit for some reason.
    - JoshTriplett 4y ago
      I've only run into one site (Instagram) that forces the use of the app, and I just close the site instead.
      - rav3ndust 4y ago
        Another great example lately is Reddit. Reddit's mobile experience had become awful. Every time someone sends me a reddit link and I click on it, I'm taken to Reddit's mobile site, which should function just fine and dandy, but the minute it detects you are there on a mobile browser, it spams you with "Reddit works best in the app!" messages, and won't let you view some subs at all without signing in. Reddit is a great example of mobile done wrong. Don't be like Reddit.
        hnburnsy 4y ago
- lawn 4y ago
  And they'll still see a ton of YouTube ads.
  - hendersoon 4y ago
    There are a couple of ways to block YT ads, but DNS-based adblockers won't do it. On Android you can simply install an alternate YT client, boom, job's done. Works on Android TV also. On iOS, the content blocker lists in Safari can block YT ads, but there's no way to block them in Google's YouTube app unless you jailbreak and install a modified app. So just watch YT in Safari.
    - skinnymuch 4y ago
      You can side load YouTube tweaked apps. You’ll have to refresh the app every 7 days without a workaround or dev account but altserver makes it painless after the first time.
  - sofixa 4y ago
    Not unless they pay for YouTube Premium (or share it with someone else paying for it). It's well worth it, IMHO.
    - ghostpepper 4y ago
      I finally got fed up with ads on youtube and decided to put my money where my mouth is vis-a-vis supporting business models that I want to succeed (paying for content instead of with my eyeballs). I have a little-used gmail account that I registered a few years ago, as my original gmail became completely overrun with spam and I switched to Fastmail. I added a credit card to the account and tried to pay for Youtube Premium and was immediately flagged for suspicious activity. To reactivate my account, Google wants me to verify my identity with photos of goverment ID and a full KYC-style form. No thanks. I signed up for https://nebula.app/ https://nebula.app/ instead - they were able to process my payment on the first attempt.
      - judge2020 4y ago
camhart 4y ago
I'm in a similar boat, except for recipe sites. That's the one time I find myself bothered by ads.
- Loughla 4y ago
  Buy a subscription to America's test kitchen. For just ATK it's like $40 for one site or $80 for all of their sites and free shipping from their shop. And that's if you don't use a discount code (and they are always running some kind of a discount). You get access to ATK, Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Country, their app, and again free shipping. It's worth it to avoid all the bullshit blogspam, even without the ATK rating and reviews (which are super useful on their own as well).
  - endemic 4y ago
    ATK stuff is super high quality. Like you said, probably worth it just to avoid reading the author's life story prior to the recipe on random food blogs.
- easton 4y ago
  If you like to browse recipes on your iPad/iPhone/Android device, the Paprika recipe manager app is really good for this. It adds a share sheet button that will pull the ingredients and instructions out of a page and let you read them easily (or save them to the app). It's wonderful. https://www.paprikaapp.com/ https://www.paprikaapp.com/
  - judge2020 4y ago
    Also, the reader function within Safari works pretty well in my experience.
TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
Just push it through an arichiving service?

by danwee 4y ago

amf12 4y ago

For other websites, Chrome based browsers have a reader mode setting. I just use that.

unicornporn 4y ago

> I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads People don't browse, they app.

BbzzbB 4y ago
Even then, most apps are just thinly veiled webapps for which the site (with Firefox and uBlock) provides the same or superior experience, ad-free.
- NavinF 4y ago
  Er no, most iOS apps are not thinly veiled webapps. Have you ever used iOS?
  - judge2020 4y ago
    Most apps are moving to React Native especially if they're targeting Android and iOS, but that's still a far cry from being a wrapper around a webapp.
    - raydev 4y ago
      I think this is only true for small biz. All the big names quietly or publicly abandoned their efforts to fully migrate to React Native, focusing only on the most simple use-cases/views if they do keep it around. Even with the smartest people working on it, it's tough to keep React Native performant.
    - BbzzbB 4y ago
      Sorry I didn't express that clearly FWIW, didn't mean that literally. It's just that most apps people use are pretty much the same as their respective websites. All of FAAMG's websites work as perfectly fine replacement to the apps, even better, IMHO, when you get rid of the ads apparatus.
- xorcist 4y ago
  Except when said web site detects your mobile web browser, and serves a page telling you to download their app instead.
  - gowld 4y ago
    AdBlocker + desktop mode or User Agent Switcher blocks that
  - BbzzbB 4y ago
    That's half of the point of having uBlock Origin. Use the zapper to disappear an element for the session, use the picker to poof them forever. They really work on making their webapps as unbearable as possible, but you can get rid of it to make them webapps great again. Can even add sites/pages as home app icons. Which makes Firefox the obviously better mobile browser, Chrome seems like a pretty strong case of defaults' power. Tho gotta add the "Google Search Fixer" select addon because they sure doesn't want you to get summary cards, financial charts and other goodies if you use a competitor browser. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and co without the ads circus. Duolingo without daily activity limit for some reason.
  - JoshTriplett 4y ago
    I've only run into one site (Instagram) that forces the use of the app, and I just close the site instead.
    - rav3ndust 4y ago
      Another great example lately is Reddit. Reddit's mobile experience had become awful. Every time someone sends me a reddit link and I click on it, I'm taken to Reddit's mobile site, which should function just fine and dandy, but the minute it detects you are there on a mobile browser, it spams you with "Reddit works best in the app!" messages, and won't let you view some subs at all without signing in. Reddit is a great example of mobile done wrong. Don't be like Reddit.
      - hnburnsy 4y ago
lawn 4y ago
And they'll still see a ton of YouTube ads.
- hendersoon 4y ago
  There are a couple of ways to block YT ads, but DNS-based adblockers won't do it. On Android you can simply install an alternate YT client, boom, job's done. Works on Android TV also. On iOS, the content blocker lists in Safari can block YT ads, but there's no way to block them in Google's YouTube app unless you jailbreak and install a modified app. So just watch YT in Safari.
  - skinnymuch 4y ago
    You can side load YouTube tweaked apps. You’ll have to refresh the app every 7 days without a workaround or dev account but altserver makes it painless after the first time.
- sofixa 4y ago
  Not unless they pay for YouTube Premium (or share it with someone else paying for it). It's well worth it, IMHO.
  - ghostpepper 4y ago
    I finally got fed up with ads on youtube and decided to put my money where my mouth is vis-a-vis supporting business models that I want to succeed (paying for content instead of with my eyeballs). I have a little-used gmail account that I registered a few years ago, as my original gmail became completely overrun with spam and I switched to Fastmail. I added a credit card to the account and tried to pay for Youtube Premium and was immediately flagged for suspicious activity. To reactivate my account, Google wants me to verify my identity with photos of goverment ID and a full KYC-style form. No thanks. I signed up for https://nebula.app/ https://nebula.app/ instead - they were able to process my payment on the first attempt.
    - judge2020 4y ago

camhart 4y ago

I'm in a similar boat, except for recipe sites. That's the one time I find myself bothered by ads.

Loughla 4y ago
Buy a subscription to America's test kitchen. For just ATK it's like $40 for one site or $80 for all of their sites and free shipping from their shop. And that's if you don't use a discount code (and they are always running some kind of a discount). You get access to ATK, Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Country, their app, and again free shipping. It's worth it to avoid all the bullshit blogspam, even without the ATK rating and reviews (which are super useful on their own as well).
- endemic 4y ago
  ATK stuff is super high quality. Like you said, probably worth it just to avoid reading the author's life story prior to the recipe on random food blogs.
easton 4y ago
If you like to browse recipes on your iPad/iPhone/Android device, the Paprika recipe manager app is really good for this. It adds a share sheet button that will pull the ingredients and instructions out of a page and let you read them easily (or save them to the app). It's wonderful. https://www.paprikaapp.com/ https://www.paprikaapp.com/
- judge2020 4y ago
  Also, the reader function within Safari works pretty well in my experience.

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago

Just push it through an arichiving service?