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Yes, it enables endless scrolling, serving an ad once in a while.

• candiodari 3y ago
  It enables making ads indistinguishable from real content, to get more clicks through deception. That's another interpretation. You'd think ad buyers would have a problem with this, but I guess not. I've begun dragging a small "ultraportable" laptop with me, because it makes a lot of things bearable again: youtube, reddit, stackoverflow ... I'm not sure why people treat mobile users so horribly bad, but here we are.
  • 1over137 3y ago
    >You'd think ad buyers would have a problem with this... Alas, no, I wouldn't think that. :(
  • still_grokking 3y ago
    > I'm not sure why people treat mobile users so horribly bad, but here we are. Maybe because those people "don't care" about usability, or better said, never got to know what this even means. The young generation was socialized on mobile. They just don't know better so you can treat them like that without consequences.
  • whamlastxmas 3y ago
    If you’re on android you can use Firefox with ublock. It’s my biggest loss switching to iPhone, to the point that HN comments are literally the only web page I will visit on my phone. Anything else I wait for laptop access. Supposedly supposed to get side loading later this year which hope to god means Firefox with extensions on iOS
  • whamlastxmas 3y ago
    Also ad buyers don’t mind, and often prefer, deceptive or discrete advertising. Product placement and “native advertising” has been around for decades or maybe even a century.
• jghn 3y ago
  It also puts more focus on visual content on the main page instead of buried under the links. Personally I hate this. I prefer about a 90-95% text to visual ratio.