It used to be "what are a thousand lawyers chained to the bottom of the ocean?"

These days I'd say “what are a thousand managers and execs chained to the bottom of the ocean?"

It's not the editors doing this shit, it's not the developers deciding this shit.

It's the managers and fuck most (but not all) of them

People who don't use ad blockers get a MUCH different experience. Especially on mobile. I made the decision to pony up the cash for an app called AdGuard years ago. It hosts its own VPN locally on your phone and filters traffic through it. The first time I learned how it worked I thought "Damn, that's a really good idea!"

POV: you just opened a link someone posted on Lemmy via your mobile app.

Mobile internet is hot garbage.

I guess nobody is going to talk about the 61 open tabs on a mobile phone

Second comment: use privacy enabled browsers, either Firefox or DuckDuckGo browser

Set one of these providers as your private DNS in phone settings... if iOS allows it. I use the Mullvad. For the rest of you on android use FF+uBlock AND set your DNS.

base.dns.mullvad.net

dns.adguard-dns.com

9b3afc.dns.nextdns.io

Actually it's your fault for not using ad-block.

Technically you can blame a website, but this is the case with almost all of them. The whole internet is like this and you cannot do anything about it. At least not by yourself.

Instead, you should fix this for yourself:

1. Use Firefox and install uBlock extension.
2. Use ad-blocking DNS server.

That's probably one reason why it became a habit to stay on Lemmy, often not even opening the article.

It reminds me of the scene from Ready Player One when Desmond is saying in his board meeting, saying once they get a hold of the Oracle , that then they can put up to 80% adds on the screen before inducing seizures!!! I always wondered if it was a joke or live dark humor about where the internet is going ..

Kiwibrowser.com

Its foss and supports extensions like:

Ublock

Fastforward

Bypass Paywall

I still don't care about cookies

Adblock via DNS is your friend.

Yeah, and if you press the history back button to get away from that ad-ridden nonsense, they intercept that to "offer" more "articles" to "read" or better said they try to hold you hostage to serve even more ads to you. Should be illegal, but money.

AdBlock and RSS

Mobile FF is great but you can go one step further and us adblock dns as well.

Because of this I use Pocket by Firefox.

I know that its not Open Source and there are probably better programms but I kinda like it for its simplicity but there are also recommended articles if I have read all my saved ones.

Reader View/Mode saves lives and blood pressure!