I'm getting to the point where I just want to read ... once I get onto a site, I skip the ads and just read (most of the time I get limited ads because I have ad blocker) ... but if the ads, images, display is making it hard to read, I turn on read mode and get rid of all the clutter ... if the site was purposefully designed to not allow me to use read mode ... turn off the tab and move along to the next link.

If the site has somehow bypassed ad block and now shows ads, floating images, floating videos, banners or other elements ... if I can't get to the content I came to see, I turn off the tab and move on to the next site. I'm no wasting my time on these dumb sites.

IF I WANTED TO KEEP WATCHING THE FUCKING VIDEO I WOULDN'T BE FUCKING SCROLLING

Reminds me of this one I saw during the gme craze 🤣

And "news" sites that intentionally delay the relevant images/videos to load after their ads and related stories, so users scrolling around for the only relevant content in the entire "article" see all the ads first.

I had this yesterday on my phone. The video was like half an inch wide and silent.

What’s the purpose of this? It also had some banner at the bottom, so I’m only have to use 30% of the screen to actually read the article.

The web has become such garbage.

Yeah I hate that with all my soul.

That reminded me a bit about some odd behavior that have some form of vertical videos like shorts/reels (don't remember where I saw it) like you are watching a video and then it moves up a bit like to show you (like if you didn't know) that you can doom scroll forcing you to tap the video to bring it at its original place, this has happened to me several times like, bruh, what the heck is this asshole design.

I've also noticed some sites displaying totally unrelated videos above their news articles. Extremely weird

Recently, I saw some news page where there was a video, but it was just stringing together the sentences from the article on top of a random stock image.

I was extremely confused why this exists, but then realized, I hadn't unmuted the video. Surely, it reads it out for sight impaired folks.

...nope, there was no audio. They just figured, they should have a worse way of reading. And of course, it would float on top of the article, too, to make reading that worse as well.

I set up a pi-hole on my home network. At least at home I see a lot less ads.

Fandom covers half the mobile page with a video sometimes. Fuck Fandom.

Simple mode in chrome, reading mode (not sure if that's an extension actually) in firefox. Whatever addon you need to just show the text without the ads. Works on most sites

Does uBlock Origin have a filter list for that kinda stuff

I like it on certain sites like YouTube where I can read the comments while watching the video if I want to, but for the majority of sites and especially if the video's an ad/not the main focus of the page the website can fuck right off.

Fucking the independent dose that shite thank the gods for reader mode

Much more polite than I am on the matter.

Worse than

That is for people like my uncle that had 3 TVs and a computer in his lounge.

I agree with you, that shit needs to stop.

In Safari, the Reader Mode is your friend. It doesn’t always work, but when it does, it’s gorgeous.