advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space

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• NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Estimates show we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures…

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fiction once again being the manual…

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  • gloktawasright@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can you remind me what this is from?

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    • dustywinter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ready Player One

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• hellfire103@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/…/ublock-origin/

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• flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Advertising being allowed to become the dominant monetization method for the internet was a mistake.

  I’ve never seen anything that makes most of its money from advertising that doesn’t get worse and worse for it over time as a result. Once you let the advertisers in they will ruin whatever it is they are being allowed to leech off of. Might take 1 year, might take 20, but once they get that foot hold they will run it into the ground because like a billionaire and money, it is never enough.

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  • Two9A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect “ad-unsafe” works that wouldn’t get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.

    So we tore the ads back out, traffic’s recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we’re doing better without ads than we were with ads.

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    • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      that’s the thing. People will generally support a service they like. If it has ads, most people won’t like it and thus won’t support it.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Extend that from “advertisers” to “capitalists” and you’ll be much more correct.

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• rhvg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You will soon miss the display banner as it’s at least honest for being an ad. AI will soon have ads weaved in the text itself.

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ublock origin creates an anti-intext filter that filters out text with key phrases indicating an advertisement XD

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  • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d rather have ads placed in the text in a context that makes sense than the abomination of a system we have now that is both intrusive and irrelevant.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d rather have manipulative content placed in the text in a context that makes sense than the abomination of a system we have now that is both intrusive and irrelevant.

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you have ublock origin you should be able to use the element picker to block that frame.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    yeah i’m doing it through the dev console, still annoying.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Since using ublock origin I can’t remember the last time it didn’t automatically hide those now empty elements.

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve had to use it a few times on non-english sites but I agree, most of the time ublock handles those automatically.

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  • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is disabled now for me on chrome. Forced to use ublock lite bs.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why use Chrome in this day of enshittified Google?

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• pooberbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  YMMV but switching to vertical tabs might be an improvement. Especially with such a wide screen, and since most websites (especially articles) only use a narrow column in the center, it’s been great for me.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    huh, interesting thought :D

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Lmao people still using the internet like this is wild.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i don’t use ad-blocker, instead i just avoid websites if they’re too ad-ridden, like youtube.

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    • deus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why though?

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just get a bigger screen. But you can't buy bigger screens these days except as smart TVs or monitors... And those smart screens can detect when you aren't interacting with them and display ads...

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• asdfranger@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s why reading mode exists, I use it all the time when I see sites as shitty as this.

  (It’s the little rectangle icon near the bookmark button, on the navigation bar)

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They should add a per-site setting to use reading mode by default.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s a great idea.

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    • fitgse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Surprisingly safari does, but you should still use Firefox (maybe there is an extension?)

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  • ChillCapybara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why is this not top comment? Reader mode first. Ublock zapper second. If that doesn’t work bye bye

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • ascallion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    CSD?

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• MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What resolution are you browsing at? I have a hard time showing that ad at all in my setup, but I'm not even at 4K and I get a HUGE picture of the rocket in question and still see more text than you show in the screenshot. That's what? 720p?

  I man, don't get me wrong, ads are annoying, there's a reason why I have so many layers of blocking I couldn't even shut them all off to test this, but you seem to be browsing at what I'd call... legacy resolutions. You'd almost be better off twisting that screen 90 degrees and asking for the mobile version.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i’m at 1080p. the resolution is low but i need it that low because if i increase the resolution to make everything smaller, it’s too small for my eyes and it actually hurts my eyes. i need a big font, big icons, everything.

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    • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah. That's more of an accessibility issue than an advertising issue, then. I imagine even without ads a bunch of modern websites expecting higher resolutions and smaller scaling factors will look cramped.

      I was not kidding before, if you have vision problems that don't play well with desktop views, mobile versions of websites tend to be a LOT friendlier to large text sizes. Have you tried setting your browser to a vertical window and calling up the phone version? On Firefox at least you can set the resolution of the phone you're emulating and zoom it all the way up. The setting is buried in the developer tools, but there are tons of tutorials out there (TLDR, press F12, look for the button that looks like a tablet/phone).

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d strongly suggest running a higher resolution (if your monitor supports it) and just using the various scaling/accessibility options of your OS. I cannot handle raw 4k any more, but I’ve been running with it just fine at 150% scale for probably over a decade now, on various versions of Windows and Linux (XFCE and Plasma, mostly). Only the very rare ancient program from Windows XP days won’t scale properly, and even then you can just tell the window manager to scale the whole thing.

      I say all this because things will literally be clearer and more legible if you run your monitor at native resolution and have the OS/browser render things larger. If your monitor is 1080p… well… I guess just know you shouldn’t have to fear being picky with a new one if/when the time comes!

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• Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  On mobile it can be literally 75% of the screen sh.itjust.works/comment/20387049

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• SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Techcrunch isn’t even the worst offender…

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ikr

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    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Space dot com is, at least on mobile, completely covered in ads. Makes me question the legitimacy of their articles.

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• Schwim@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Block the elements with an ad blocker if it’s a site you frequent often .

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  50% so far

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• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s worse on mobile.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    infinite tabs

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    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Haha they never get closed

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  only 50%?

  those are rookie numbers. I frequently come across sites that block around 75%

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• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Can you use uBlock Origin to remove the DIV for the ad? Or is it using randomly generate IDs?

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  • keisatsu@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If its predictable at least partly you can hide it with ublock origin and something like ##div[class^=“classThatContainAds”]

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Idiocracy

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• 5oap10116@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Guess you need to invest in a vertical 34" monitor

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• relativestranger@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  on the linked page, i get a giant header image and headline, followed by the article text (which accounts for just 15% of the vertical space on my 16:10 screen).

  when i scroll as you have, there’s no elements glued to the top getting in the way.

  (ubo and um both enabled)

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• abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That sucks. As one of the workarounds I have vertical taskbar and tabs. Our screens have more horizontal space than we usually need.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And they get small-mobile-mode on desktop-mode >:(

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