Video playing, ad that scrolls, two lines of a story, the bottom popping up with notifications every few minutes over the top of more scrolling ads.

Yay internet.

Edit: Oh wow! Did not expect so many responses. First let me say, thank you for taking the time to read and respond! To address the biggest response to use Firefox I actually have it on my phone it’s just remembering to break the habit. This was more to show what an average user who just uses what they’re used to experiences on mobile browsing.

  • OldQWERTYbastard
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    141 year ago

    People who don’t use ad blockers get a MUCH different experience. Especially on mobile. I made the decision to pony up the cash for an app called AdGuard years ago. It hosts its own VPN locally on your phone and filters traffic through it. The first time I learned how it worked I thought “Damn, that’s a really good idea!”

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      For those who don’t know you can also set a custom DNS on most phones now and have it block ads that way or my personal favorite and self host a network ad blocker like a pihole on an old PC and do it potentially for free.

      But honestly the companies making it easy for people to adblock and asking for little money are so good and I deeply support them even if it means paying them cause it’s almost necessary in modern internet