Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space
Why though?
uhm, i’m not sure how to respond to that. let me think about it for a long time.
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…
It’s been 3 hours.
He’s just gone out to buy cigarettes. He’ll be home any day now.
3 hours is an insignificant amount of time to me >.<
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.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
uhm, i’m not sure how to respond to that. let me think about it for a long time.
3abas@lemmy.world 2 months 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…
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s been 3 hours.
sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’s just gone out to buy cigarettes. He’ll be home any day now.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
3 hours is an insignificant amount of time to me >.<
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months 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.