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Commercial sites brought ad blocks upon themselves with malvertising an insanely obtrusive ads. It blows my mind how people are so accepting of the status quo,
by Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
Commercial sites brought ad blocks upon themselves with malvertising an insanely obtrusive ads.
It blows my mind how people are so accepting of the status quo, especially on mobile, where many news sites will put a sticky ad banner on the top, throw a video ad on the corner (with a close button that's only 1/8" across, of course), and then every paragraph (which is only like 2-3 sentences) is separated by an ad. At any given moment, well over half my screen is ads, even after managing to close the video ad in the corner.
Browsing the web on a phone, I wonder how many bandwidth and battery is being used just to show ads.
- behringer 2y agoGet yourself firefox mobile and have ublock origin on your phone :)
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoI already do, but that only blocks ads in Firefox. If I open a link in an app, it often uses some browser widget that's effectively Chrome.
- wkat4242 2y agoYou can also block ads through dns like with blokada. That even stops ads within apps! In many cases.
- cozzyd 2y agothough I do 90% of my mobile browsing in firefox, sometimes I end up using the pop-up browswer widget. Looking at my data use... the uBO-less widget has used more data than firefox, despite being used much less often. non-firefox mobile users must blow through their data plans...