Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space

• deus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why though?

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    uhm, i’m not sure how to respond to that. let me think about it for a long time.

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    • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The question isn’t why you avoid sites that use ads, it’s why you don’t have an ad blocker for the one-off situations that you do, like this one.

      Or did you go to that particular article on techcrunch as part of your routine of checking if you made the right choice to avoid such sites?

      Clearly sometimes you have to go to those sites, and when you do, you’re exposing yourself to ads, tracking, and potential malware unnecessarily…

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s been 3 hours.

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      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        3 hours is an insignificant amount of time to me >.<

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      • sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        He’s just gone out to buy cigarettes. He’ll be home any day now.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s also way faster to browse with an adblocker because your browser isn’t connecting, downloading and processing a bunch of images and scripts to present that bullshit. Like 80% faster.

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