As a matter of principle I will doff my headphones and look away or hyperfocus on the specific area to skip the ad waiting for it to become available.
Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 11 months agoThis. Ads can be somewhat okay as long as they don’t interrupt or otherwise hinder the functionality of the website or application I’m using.
YouTube’s video ads interrupt the main functionality of the website for the full duration of the ads (some are skippable after 5s).
meco03211@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
In the early days of the Internet, ads were ok.
Then the popups came.
Then came the popup blockers.
It's been an arms race since the beginning. The ad-throwers get greedy, not knowing when to stop pushing. That's how things escalate.
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The pop-up divs annoy the fuck out of me. And most websites have gotten smart about them by creating the div ids on the fly so ublock can take them on.
I’m getting close to completely disabling JavaScript at this rate.
Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I started using noscript on my phone despite how annoying it is to use day to day. Desktop have more tools to manage pop ups better, but on mobile the only reliable way I’ve found is to nuke everything and just re enable what you need.