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yeah I tried to read the article, but somehow it's hard to see the content beyond a full screen ad inside a modal, a second modal asking me to allow notificatio

by y42 2y ago

yeah I tried to read the article, but somehow it's hard to see the content beyond a full screen ad inside a modal, a second modal asking me to allow notifications, an inline WhatsApp banner, a fixed ad in the footer,four display ads fencing the first paragraph and at this point I kind of gave up.

wffurr 2y ago
Yeah this seems like a fun article but it's buried under way too much adtech crud, and Chrome Android has no "reader view" I can find. Maybe I need a better user agent that actually respects the user.
- Liquix 2y ago
  Iceraven is an unofficial fork of Firefox for Android maintained by Mozilla, allows installation of desktop extensions (full uBlock origin): https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
  - mkl 2y ago
    Firefox Android supports uBlock Origin just fine (I didn't see a single ad or modal in this article). There is no need for obscure forks, and Iceraven is "Definitely not brought to you by Mozilla!", as the first sentence on the page says.
switch007 2y ago
It's an ad blocker testing site that occasionally has some news
PaulRobinson 2y ago
Reach - the publishing group that owns a lot of local papers as well as some national titles in the UK, such as the Daily Express and the Mirror - has run their online portfolio into the ground. All their paper websites are like this, and staff have been complaining for some time that their content is getting buried under adtech noise. Worse, the writers have page view targets - no wonder morale there is so poor.
- dcsan 2y ago
  The revenue has been sucked out of the publications pushing them into options like this. Craig's fortune was redirected from somewhere in a zero sum ecosystem. LLM searches making it far worse. I hope micropayments for original content work out but that's a pipe dream so far
GardenLetter27 2y ago
Why aren't you using Firefox with uBlock Origin?
- y42 2y ago
  I am... experienced that on my mobile. (and fwiwf, shameless self promotion, thats why I wrote my own AI based summarizing service: https://nickyreinert.de/blog/2025/02/16/poneyhot-eats-click-bait-and-fake-news/ https://nickyreinert.de/blog/2025/02/16/poneyhot-eats-click-...
  - GardenLetter27 2y ago
    You can use Firefox with uBlock Origin on mobile too, that's what I do.
    - y42 2y ago
      uff.. yeah just figured that out now. Never questioned it.. thanks :D
dcsan 2y ago
Reader mode in mobile? But then maybe you lose some graphics

by y42 2y ago

wffurr 2y ago

Yeah this seems like a fun article but it's buried under way too much adtech crud, and Chrome Android has no "reader view" I can find. Maybe I need a better user agent that actually respects the user.

Liquix 2y ago
Iceraven is an unofficial fork of Firefox for Android maintained by Mozilla, allows installation of desktop extensions (full uBlock origin): https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
- mkl 2y ago
  Firefox Android supports uBlock Origin just fine (I didn't see a single ad or modal in this article). There is no need for obscure forks, and Iceraven is "Definitely not brought to you by Mozilla!", as the first sentence on the page says.

switch007 2y ago

It's an ad blocker testing site that occasionally has some news

PaulRobinson 2y ago

Reach - the publishing group that owns a lot of local papers as well as some national titles in the UK, such as the Daily Express and the Mirror - has run their online portfolio into the ground. All their paper websites are like this, and staff have been complaining for some time that their content is getting buried under adtech noise. Worse, the writers have page view targets - no wonder morale there is so poor.

dcsan 2y ago
The revenue has been sucked out of the publications pushing them into options like this. Craig's fortune was redirected from somewhere in a zero sum ecosystem. LLM searches making it far worse. I hope micropayments for original content work out but that's a pipe dream so far

GardenLetter27 2y ago

Why aren't you using Firefox with uBlock Origin?

y42 2y ago
I am... experienced that on my mobile. (and fwiwf, shameless self promotion, thats why I wrote my own AI based summarizing service: https://nickyreinert.de/blog/2025/02/16/poneyhot-eats-click-bait-and-fake-news/ https://nickyreinert.de/blog/2025/02/16/poneyhot-eats-click-...
- GardenLetter27 2y ago
  You can use Firefox with uBlock Origin on mobile too, that's what I do.
  - y42 2y ago
    uff.. yeah just figured that out now. Never questioned it.. thanks :D

dcsan 2y ago

Reader mode in mobile? But then maybe you lose some graphics