This news site is 60% Amazon ads.
This news site is 60% Amazon ads.
Sorry if this pic is a bit blurry. I took a photo of my colleges computer screen from my phone.
Low key infuriating how accurate this experience is
The sides are missing ads and also the text needs to be interrupted with ads after every paragraph.
Also the ad that is blocking the text but has a tiny close button that is difficult to hit on mobile is missing.
At the end there should be previews of further articles which are, you guessed it, ads.
If it is more ad than news I'd say this an ad site that happens to have some news.
Yup. And the thing that kills me about this is they are all ads for the exact same company.
This oughta help
Several times now, I've sent people I knew links to articles that looked perfectly fine to me, but turned out to be unusable ad-ridden garbage to them.
Since then, I try to remember to disable uBlock Origin to check what they'll actually see before I share any links.
You know, I never thought about that until now. Not that I send that many links out, but still another thing to think about.
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and then some sites have audacity to ask for turning off adblocker
It looks pretty good for a picture of a screen.
Gross, someone injected news into this ad site.
I bet on mobile it is even worse!
Using a web browser on your phone is almost completely useless these days what with how messed up the formatting is and how many endless ads there are. The most irritating thing is how a lot of news sites don't even both including images of their news stories. Probably to save the bandwidth. I've noticed stories which referred to photos or drawings and none were visible on mobile. Of all media formats, one would think a web browser on a high resolution screen would be a great one to depict images. Nope. At least not on a lot of sites. They probably prefer to use that space for more ads, I think.
I actually just stayed using kiwi browser since it's a chromium fork that supports plugins on Android. Ublock and some other choice extensions are going pretty well for me so far
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Some of those words mean something to me.
It was literally always like this. Newspapers had a large fraction of material content dedicated to full and half page ads and regularly included entire sections of an ad as ‘sponsored content’. Half the remainder is PR placement and the other half is establishment propaganda and weather and sports. It was always this way.
And they wonder why people don't visit News sites
Sooo your average news site now.
That's how all the tech sites have gotten, by the way. Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors.. all devoting huge space to Amazon Prime ads masquerading as journalism. Amazing that Amazon pulled this off through their affiliate program.
only ever really see ads when I'm at work. all the things are blocked at home & on phone.
Only "mildly" infuriating??
lmao, right? This moves beyond "mild" to plain ol' infuriating imo.
I hope there are alternatives for news, because this looks horrible
The Capitalist idea of Utopia.
What about when you scroll down?
To be fair to the journal, most people use the app which is far more palatable. This is their Home Screen right now for example https://ibb.co/fS4gmJc
That's only because the app is making them money by stealing all the personal info it can from your device instead.
Pure clickbait! I'm not even going to bother heading to it.
So are ars technica and gizmodo, which are also just giant Apple advertisement sites