Sorry if this pic is a bit blurry. I took a photo of my colleges computer screen from my phone.

    • lohrun
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      131 year ago

      Low key infuriating how accurate this experience is

    • @[email protected]
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      The sides are missing ads and also the text needs to be interrupted with ads after every paragraph.

      Also the ad that is blocking the text but has a tiny close button that is difficult to hit on mobile is missing.

      At the end there should be previews of further articles which are, you guessed it, ads.

  • Izzy
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    491 year ago

    If it is more ad than news I’d say this an ad site that happens to have some news.

    • StrikerOPM
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      31 year ago

      Yup. And the thing that kills me about this is they are all ads for the exact same company.

  • @itsnotlupus
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    221 year ago

    Several times now, I’ve sent people I knew links to articles that looked perfectly fine to me, but turned out to be unusable ad-ridden garbage to them.

    Since then, I try to remember to disable uBlock Origin to check what they’ll actually see before I share any links.

  • @Capricorny90210
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    151 year ago

    It looks pretty good for a picture of a screen.

  • @Hazdaz
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    81 year ago

    I bet on mobile it is even worse!

    Using a web browser on your phone is almost completely useless these days what with how messed up the formatting is and how many endless ads there are. The most irritating thing is how a lot of news sites don’t even both including images of their news stories. Probably to save the bandwidth. I’ve noticed stories which referred to photos or drawings and none were visible on mobile. Of all media formats, one would think a web browser on a high resolution screen would be a great one to depict images. Nope. At least not on a lot of sites. They probably prefer to use that space for more ads, I think.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      I use Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin and the ads don’t even download. Saves on bandwidth and makes the web usable.

      • @Hazdaz
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        31 year ago

        I might have to look into that, but even if the ads all went away, the formating for mobile sites is atrocious.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          No doubt. For a huge proportion of sites I just use the desktop version plus pinch to zoom

    • cerothem
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      61 year ago

      I actually just stayed using kiwi browser since it’s a chromium fork that supports plugins on Android. Ublock and some other choice extensions are going pretty well for me so far

      • @Hazdaz
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        21 year ago

        Some of those words mean something to me.

  • @sixapples
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    71 year ago

    It was literally always like this. Newspapers had a large fraction of material content dedicated to full and half page ads and regularly included entire sections of an ad as ‘sponsored content’. Half the remainder is PR placement and the other half is establishment propaganda and weather and sports. It was always this way.

  • @Skellybones
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    61 year ago

    And they wonder why people don’t visit News sites

  • MisterMoo
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    51 year ago

    That’s how all the tech sites have gotten, by the way. Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors… all devoting huge space to Amazon Prime ads masquerading as journalism. Amazing that Amazon pulled this off through their affiliate program.

  • @tallwookie
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    51 year ago

    only ever really see ads when I’m at work. all the things are blocked at home & on phone.

    • @ElectroVagrant
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      31 year ago

      lmao, right? This moves beyond “mild” to plain ol’ infuriating imo.