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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 380 points 1 year ago

This is 100% the fault of shitty advertisers spamming us with literal scams, malware, and spyware.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 195 points 1 year ago

I get that ads pay for a free internet. But that doesn't mean that 60% of my screen needs to be malware to read a local news article.

Until advertisers act in good faith, I block as much as possible.

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

Used to be if I found the site of a newspaper I thought I liked, I'd turn off my ad blocker to see how it goes.

I don't even try any more. Again and again and again, every time I turn it off the page gets so cluttered that following the article becomes a chore and takes up so many resources that even scrolling slows to a crawl. Ludicrous nonsense.

The cluttered pages with "videos" running all over the place is what frustrates me the most. I go in and disable javascript and see how it goes. Javascript seems to be the herpes of the internet as far as I am concerned.

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