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Fiction once again being the manual...
Can you remind me what this is from?
Ready Player One
Advertising being allowed to become the dominant monetization method for the internet was a mistake.
I've never seen anything that makes most of its money from advertising that doesn't get worse and worse for it over time as a result. Once you let the advertisers in they will ruin whatever it is they are being allowed to leech off of. Might take 1 year, might take 20, but once they get that foot hold they will run it into the ground because like a billionaire and money, it is never enough.
So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect "ad-unsafe" works that wouldn't get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.
So we tore the ads back out, traffic's recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we're doing better without ads than we were with ads.
that's the thing. People will generally support a service they like. If it has ads, most people won't like it and thus won't support it.
You will soon miss the display banner as it’s at least honest for being an ad. AI will soon have ads weaved in the text itself.
Ublock origin creates an anti-intext filter that filters out text with key phrases indicating an advertisement XD
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If you have ublock origin you should be able to use the element picker to block that frame.
Since using ublock origin I can't remember the last time it didn't automatically hide those now empty elements.
I’ve had to use it a few times on non-english sites but I agree, most of the time ublock handles those automatically.
yeah i'm doing it through the dev console, still annoying.
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YMMV but switching to vertical tabs might be an improvement. Especially with such a wide screen, and since most websites (especially articles) only use a narrow column in the center, it's been great for me.
huh, interesting thought :D
That's why reading mode exists, I use it all the time when I see sites as cluttered as this. Great feature.
(It's the little rectangle icon near the bookmark button, on the navigation bar)
They should add a per-site setting to use reading mode by default.
That's a great idea.
Surprisingly safari does, but you should still use Firefox (maybe there is an extension?)
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Just get a bigger screen. But you can't buy bigger screens these days except as smart TVs or monitors... And those smart screens can detect when you aren't interacting with them and display ads...
What resolution are you browsing at? I have a hard time showing that ad at all in my setup, but I'm not even at 4K and I get a HUGE picture of the rocket in question and still see more text than you show in the screenshot. That's what? 720p?
I man, don't get me wrong, ads are annoying, there's a reason why I have so many layers of blocking I couldn't even shut them all off to test this, but you seem to be browsing at what I'd call... legacy resolutions. You'd almost be better off twisting that screen 90 degrees and asking for the mobile version. Or, you know, you could lower the UI scaling in your display settings.
i'm at 1080p. the resolution is low but i need it that low because if i increase the resolution to make everything smaller, it's too small for my eyes and it actually hurts my eyes. i need a big font, big icons, everything.
Ah. That's more of an accessibility issue than an advertising issue, then. I imagine even without ads a bunch of modern websites expecting higher resolutions and smaller scaling factors will look cramped.
I was not kidding before, if you have vision problems that don't play well with desktop views, mobile versions of websites tend to be a LOT friendlier to large text sizes. Have you tried setting your browser to a vertical window and calling up the phone version? On Firefox at least you can set the resolution of the phone you're emulating and zoom it all the way up. The setting is buried in the developer tools, but there are tons of tutorials out there (TLDR, press F12, look for the button that looks like a tablet/phone). I'll try to add an image of what it looks like on my device for the site you shared.
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50% so far
Can you use uBlock Origin to remove the DIV for the ad? Or is it using randomly generate IDs?
If its predictable at least partly you can hide it with ublock origin and something like ##div[class^="classThatContainAds"]
edit: But I didn't have to, it was removed automatically
Block the elements with an ad blocker if it's a site you frequent often .
Idiocracy - a "bezel" of ads around the screen
That sucks. As one of the workarounds I have vertical taskbar and tabs. Our screens have more horizontal space than we usually need.
only 50%?
those are rookie numbers. I frequently come across sites that block around 75%
Guess you need to invest in a vertical 34" monitor
on the linked page, i get a giant header image and headline, followed by the article text (which accounts for just 15% of the vertical space on my 16:10 screen).
when i scroll as you have, there's no elements glued to the top getting in the way.
(ubo and um both enabled)
It's worse on mobile.
infinite tabs
Haha they never get closed
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