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100% this. If companies use Admiral to block Adblock and don’t have the tiny “heck off” link at the bottom of the modal, I just hit back and don’t read their ar

100% this. If companies use Admiral to block Adblock and don’t have the tiny “heck off” link at the bottom of the modal, I just hit back and don’t read their article. Sometimes Reader works on iOS in those situations, sometimes not. Between crap like Admiral, GDPR nag screens that help no one, incessant useless live chat boxes, large banners on mobile that are pinned to the tops and bottoms of views (doubly so if they’re simply cosmetic), “spin the wheel for a discount” modals, and SMS spam signup schemes, many websites are quite annoying to use and very user-hostile on the modern internet.

giantrobot 3y ago
> If companies use Admiral to block Adblock and don’t have the tiny “heck off” link at the bottom of the modal, I just hit back and don’t read their article. The most asinine part of that is the fucking site has already delivered the content. They incurred whatever costs their multi-megabyte bloated JavaScript monstrosity requires and only then blocks it with a stupid blocking banner. They'd incur the same (or less) costs if they just sent a static HTML page with the content. Doing this they could still make advertising money with a simple text add saying "this content brought to you by Slurm" inline with the content. Just log analysis will get them a ton of visitor information some overwrought AdTech product promises will revolutionize their synergies. A $5 VPS with its included terabyte of data transfer can serve so many fucking web pages in a month. Loading that down with autoplaying videos, megabytes of uncompressed PNGs, and a dozen copies of Doom worth of JavaScript is just a ludicrous pointless cost. A sprinkle of CSS can make those basic pages look amazing.