• [email protected]AEnglish
    1985·
    1 year ago

    If ads weren’t riddled with malware or absolutely obnoxious…
    Browsing without an ad blocker is cancer

    • Veticia@lemmy.mlEnglish
      902·
      1 year ago

      Hey, remember when you could see more than a single line of text of an article on mobile? Me neither.

        • Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Only on Android tho, iPhone users can’t use Firefox extensions, for iOS, I recommend the Vivaldi browser, it has a built in ad blocker with the ability to add custom block lists

      • limerod@reddthat.comEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, just a second ago. Probably, something to do with Firefox. Anyway, articles these days are becoming superficial. What could be said in a few words takes an entire paragraph for some reason. Writer’s skills are on a downward trend recently. Not liking it

        • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          We’ll* have ‘AI’ summarising shitty long articles written by the same AI. The future is bright

        • tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yeah you have to make it longer…can’t place 15 ads on a text with one paragraph

          I especially love the cases where I want to check if and when series xy continues “get the Release Date of Series XY season 5” And then there is a wall of text that summarizes season 1-4 and how everybody is waiting for season 5 to then say that the date is not out yet…

    • metallic_substance@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4310·
      1 year ago

      Hey motherfucker, did you know you can go AD FREE with YouTube™ premium? Look, it’s P R E M I U M. and it will only cost you $9.99 a month (plus any data we choose to siphon from you, aaaaaaand you have to be subjected to our shit-ass suggestions that you will almost certainly not be interested in, because fuck you in your stupid content sucking mouth)

        • Neve8028@lemm.eeEnglish
          135·
          1 year ago

          Yeah honestly not sure why so many people have been complaining about them. They’re pretty much always relevant to the content that I like watching.

          • probablyaCat@kbin.social
            71·
            1 year ago

            Mine are totally fucked, but it is because I let my kid use my account sometimes and now YouTube just doesn’t understand me as a person. It suggests stuff that neither of us want. But when I clear history and it just uses my subscriptions it is better.

              • probablyaCat@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                He has one, but it is a child account which a couple of the people he watches aren’t available. They are just game streamers and don’t say or do anything I take issue with. So he often ends up on mine. I don’t have another family spot to make another account for him and I have YouTube premium. So it is what it is. Means I don’t end up wasting hours watching videos on YouTube because of a rabbit hole so there is that silver lining I suppose.