I started to notice that more sites are turning into paywalls, and I don’t like that and would prefer ads over subscriptions.

I am curious, what does the general community think about that?

  • @helpImTrappedOnline
    21•1 month ago

    I wound not mind ads if they met the following conditions (in no particular order).

    • Actually vet them, no scams and viruses.
    • minimal obstruction to what I’m there for. A bilboard on the side of the highway is fine, but when they put in the road, there’s a problem.
    • Mix it up. YouTube playing the same ad 500 times in a row is obnoxious.
    • No yelling/loud shit. Play your ad, don’t blow out my speakers.
    • If on a silent website, video ads must be auto muted.
    • if I’m on data or a metered network, don’t auto play ads and keep the total data usage to a minimum.
    • Medical and health ads aren’t allowed. You can have PSAs about conditions and that there are treatment options, but it should your doctor researching and recommending specific medicine not a patient going in with some ad.
    • subignition
      10•1 month ago

      Globally disabling autoplay in my browser brought me so much sanity. It’s worth the small fraction of sites that behave badly because of it

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 month ago

      Add political ads to the last one too.

      99% of the time it’s either an outright lie or stretched exaggeration of the truth. No one is getting any correct information from a political ad except either side’s specific spin on it and it causes a lot of average people to incorrectly believe they are informed on who and what they are voting on that they don’t need to do more due diligence before heading to the polls.

      Also favors rich politicians and more well funded campaigns over less well off politicians and less well funded organizations and causes.

    • Aatube
      1•1 month ago

      thank goodness most browsers disable autoplay with sound now