• YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

    • keisatsu@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

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

      edit: But I didn’t have to, it was removed automatically

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months 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.

    • Two9A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months 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.

          • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            The question isn’t why you avoid sites that use ads, it’s why you don’t have an ad blocker for the one-off situations that you do, like this one.

            Or did you go to that particular article on techcrunch as part of your routine of checking if you made the right choice to avoid such sites?

            Clearly sometimes you have to go to those sites, and when you do, you’re exposing yourself to ads, tracking, and potential malware unnecessarily…

          • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            It’s also way faster to browse with an adblocker because your browser isn’t connecting, downloading and processing a bunch of images and scripts to present that bullshit. Like 80% faster.

  • Farid@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

  • relativestranger@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 months 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)

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months 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…

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    only 50%?

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

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

  • rhvg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months 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.

    • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months 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.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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        3 months 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.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

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

  • walden@wetshav.ingEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Right click up on the toolbar and select “Customize Toolbar”. Uncheck “Title Bar” to get ride of the text at the top of the screen.