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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Polpota@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

Video playing, ad that scrolls, two lines of a story, the bottom popping up with notifications every few minutes over the top of more scrolling ads.

Yay internet.

Edit: Oh wow! Did not expect so many responses. First let me say, thank you for taking the time to read and respond! To address the biggest response to use Firefox I actually have it on my phone it's just remembering to break the habit. This was more to show what an average user who just uses what they're used to experiences on mobile browsing.

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[-] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 202 points 1 year ago

Firefox is available for Android. You can install add-ons, like UBlock, just as you would on desktop

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

Also Firefox gives you reading mode which gives you well formatted text without distracting images or ads.

Sometimes help you to circumvent site registration and read the article.

Also supports dark mode.

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[-] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never "UBlock" always use "UBlock Origin"."UBlock origin" is way better(filters) than UBlock(which has an accepted ads program,also owned by Adblock Plus). Its available for Firefox android.

For more info on "UBlock" vs "UBlock origin" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#History

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[-] Deebster@lemmy.ml 133 points 1 year ago

Obligatory mention that Firefox Mobile supports plugins like uBlock Origin. You don't have to suffer this rubbish!

[-] whispering_depths@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

i always open in Firefox, makes life 1000x easier on mobile

[-] Bop@lemmy.film 17 points 1 year ago

Switched not to long ago and the reader mode is a lifesaver as well

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

I think all the people who are recommending things like Firefox plus uBlock are missing the point. Mobile internet shouldn't require that to be readable. It's bad design and it should be discouraged. If you want advertising on your site, fine, but don't make it so obtrusive that it makes the site literally unreadable.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

Mobile internet shouldn’t require that to be readable.

You're right, but we can't realistically affect web designers directly. We can only control our devices, so we should focus our energy there first.

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[-] optissima@possumpat.io 31 points 1 year ago

No, they're not missing the point. We all agree that mobile should have readability, it's just that the reality is we have no way to enforce it. Also, Firefox extensions like "Automatic Reader View" allow you to whitelist websites and force Firefox Reader view by default, as an attempt to create a plage more like what you are looking for without needing top down force that it would require to fix the issue (we all know chrome won't do it)

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 60 points 1 year ago

Even the "story" is a fucking ad.

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[-] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago
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[-] Resonosity@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago

Firefox Mobile has uBlock Origin that works on every site, even in incognito mode. Give it a try if this post pains you!

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[-] azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com 42 points 1 year ago

The Internet is unusable without an ad blocker

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Fandom wikis are so fucking shit at this

[-] twolate@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago

https://breezewiki.com/

this site helps looking up stuff on fandom wikis without going insane.

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[-] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

I'm reminded of that Futurama episode where the gang logs onto year-3000 VR internet and is immediately assaulted by a vicious swarm of flying viagra ads.

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 30 points 1 year ago

Firefox+Ublock origin rules

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago
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[-] Apeeksiht 29 points 1 year ago

So when shifting to firefox with ublock origin?

[-] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

Bro is using chrome 💀💀💀

[-] gamer@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

And the cherry on top is that the article is probably AI generated garbage anyways

[-] GiM@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

Firefox + ublock with popups disabled + duckduckgo

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[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Using an ad blocker is essentially a requirement these days

[-] Tag365@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

There's like an ad every paragraph or two on sites like these. Then apparently that's not enough so they have auto-playing video ads and pop-up ads too. Do they seriously think people will tolerate this and not go off the website?

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[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

phones used to be fun to use, now they're just miserable because advertisers have weaponized the limitations of the format

[-] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Uhm, get FireFox with uBlock Origin???

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[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

To address the biggest one to use Firefox I actually have it on my phone it’s just remembering to break the habit.

Set FF as default then hide the icon for chrome in a folder.

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[-] macisr@unilem.org 18 points 1 year ago

LMAO man i swear that i've seen something similar in some futuristic dystopian movie.

[-] 31415926535@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

I have adhd. When I can internet on my laptop, I read fast, massive info processing, able to rapidly research vast amounts of data, mind can work high speed.

Right now, I have no internet. Trying to accomplish anything on my tiny phone, brain can't compute, carving on stone tablets slow.

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[-] Vodik_VDK@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Firefox; load the page and then view it in Reader Mode.

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[-] Brasidas@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

Can't believe some websites think this is ok somehow... Today I've been trying to find some recipes and so many websites have endless popups and annoyances as you scroll through the page. It's seriously awful. I don't know how people cope without adblocker!

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

justtherecipe.com

Go there, paste the URL to the recipe, and it'll extract it from the bullshit for you.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individuals visual field before inducing seizures.

[-] kambusha@feddit.ch 16 points 1 year ago

I've been encountering adblocker-blockers more frequently these days. Just a race to the bottom, isn't it?

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[-] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ublock origin is your friend ~~or use brave browser~~

Edit: scratch that

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago

Clever people recommending browsers, DNSes, extentions... But is it how this suppose to work?

Normalize pure HTML websites.

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[-] Napain@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

in fire fox there often is a kind of textblock symbol on the right side of the link. it turns it into very readable text und ignores the banners.

Also Fuck Jk Rowling

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[-] UsedAndDenied@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ads make it impossible to even read articles any more. It's parasitic. The purpose of going to a site gets thwarted by extreme ads creating so much visual clutter I just nope right the fuck out of there.

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[-] buru5@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Mobile Firefox + Adblocker add on.

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[-] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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!"

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a website developer, I can say with certainty that most website developers argue against this shit. We argue until we're blue in the face. But ultimately it's not our decision and we'd like to continue having houses to live in and food to eat. They're arguments that we rarely win, unless we can call on the legal department and get them to balk. Ethics arguments hold no sway for corporate managers, and neither do user experiences.

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