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Off topic / this is the kind of website I immediately could not care less about the content. They immediately inundate with ads while hiding information behind

Off topic / this is the kind of website I immediately could not care less about the content. They immediately inundate with ads while hiding information behind 2000 words of fluff. The internet is ruined.

nvy 3y ago
No ads for me. May I suggest uBlock origin. If you are on a platform that does not allow effective ad blocking (chrome, safari, iOS) then consider switching to Android/Firefox.
- meierjo 3y ago
  The Orion browser on iOS and macOS can run Firefox and chrome extensions- I saw no ads on the above site.
  - tiltowait 3y ago
    Heck, I don’t see ads in regular iOS Safari. People just need to install a good content blocker.
- greenpresident 3y ago
  I block ads though my DNS on iOS and had nothing on this site. Highly recommended, though ublock origin is obviously preferable.
  - trogdor 3y ago
    How do you do that? I recently started using a Pi-hole for network-wide ad blocking - with outstanding results - but that obviously only works on my home network.
uf00lme 3y ago
This is what I hope AI/LLMs will fix, having a browser or alexa/siri like experience that reads the content from the web and removes all the junk. As an added bonus it could correlate and collect informations from different sources and display it in a personal yet standardised way. To me that is the evolution of the internet as I see it currently. No more search, point and click ad driven nonsense but a personal research bot that saves you time and makes your life richer. An evolution sort of like the move from mircofilm to digital records. It will be interesting to see the interplay between the corruption by human greed and bias on these bots and the logical basis that builds them. Hopefully logic will thrive over time.
- pier25 3y ago
  If these sites stop receiving traffic they will stop existing.
  - DougBTX 3y ago
    It will lead to “AIO”, AI Optimisation, the set of techniques to smuggle content marketing through AI summaries
- tempodox 3y ago
  What if there's more money to be made by having your summarizer bot present you ads? Logic will thrive while bot vendors take advantage of that.
  - ErikBjare 3y ago
    Use another summarizer
- deleted 3y ago
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adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Conversely, this site actually does have an EU compliant cookies banners with a single "refuse consent" button that's prominent as the "take all my data" button. In fact, the refuse button is perhaps more prominent then the accept button. It's perhaps slightly annoying as it come up with a delay that kicks in after a scroll, but on the scale of usual purposefully-misleading cookie consent (mis-)handling via dark patterns, it's not bad at all.

nvy 3y ago

No ads for me. May I suggest uBlock origin. If you are on a platform that does not allow effective ad blocking (chrome, safari, iOS) then consider switching to Android/Firefox.

meierjo 3y ago
The Orion browser on iOS and macOS can run Firefox and chrome extensions- I saw no ads on the above site.
- tiltowait 3y ago
  Heck, I don’t see ads in regular iOS Safari. People just need to install a good content blocker.
greenpresident 3y ago
I block ads though my DNS on iOS and had nothing on this site. Highly recommended, though ublock origin is obviously preferable.
- trogdor 3y ago
  How do you do that? I recently started using a Pi-hole for network-wide ad blocking - with outstanding results - but that obviously only works on my home network.

uf00lme 3y ago

This is what I hope AI/LLMs will fix, having a browser or alexa/siri like experience that reads the content from the web and removes all the junk. As an added bonus it could correlate and collect informations from different sources and display it in a personal yet standardised way. To me that is the evolution of the internet as I see it currently. No more search, point and click ad driven nonsense but a personal research bot that saves you time and makes your life richer. An evolution sort of like the move from mircofilm to digital records. It will be interesting to see the interplay between the corruption by human greed and bias on these bots and the logical basis that builds them. Hopefully logic will thrive over time.

pier25 3y ago
If these sites stop receiving traffic they will stop existing.
- DougBTX 3y ago
  It will lead to “AIO”, AI Optimisation, the set of techniques to smuggle content marketing through AI summaries
tempodox 3y ago
What if there's more money to be made by having your summarizer bot present you ads? Logic will thrive while bot vendors take advantage of that.
- ErikBjare 3y ago
  Use another summarizer
deleted 3y ago
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adhesive_wombat 3y ago

Conversely, this site actually does have an EU compliant cookies banners with a single "refuse consent" button that's prominent as the "take all my data" button. In fact, the refuse button is perhaps more prominent then the accept button. It's perhaps slightly annoying as it come up with a delay that kicks in after a scroll, but on the scale of usual purposefully-misleading cookie consent (mis-)handling via dark patterns, it's not bad at all.