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Anyway, as Liam said, you're free to use an ad blocker and he won't hold that against you.
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Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 13 January 2024 at 8:38 pm UTC
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It makes me feel like I went to one of those download sites that has 15 ads impersonating the download and maybe, just maybe there is an actual download in there somewhere; and maybe there isn't.
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It does look pretty ridiculous. That's why I assumed it's a joke.
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No and I'm not going to. I don't really even remember specifics about it. Honestly at first I though my kid got a hold of my phone and installed some garbage on it. After not finding anything out of sorts I looked around and found this page. Was kind of disappointed it wasn't my phone.
It looks like maybe they've been toned down a little. They don't look quite as intrusive as they did the other day. IMO, the ads should be significantly smaller than the content blocks. Blending them in with the content is basically tricking people into paying attention to them and making them bigger than the content blocks is just ridiculous. Having them smaller and to the side instead of mixing them with the content would be better.
I do find advertising to be pretty gross in general on websites. IMO the public is way too accepting of invasive advertising and data collection (as if the industry asked or cared, we really don't have a choice).
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It doesn't look too bad though, as I'd imagine that's how most ads are. It seems typical. It's as I remember it back before I started using adblockers (12+ years probably at this point, as soon as adblock plus originally came out).
There was no pop-ups, so that's good!
[1] I know the browser still says chromium and not ungoogled chromium, that's just because it is chromium but compiled with the ungoogled patches locally rather than using the flatpak for it.
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