Sorry if this pic is a bit blurry. I took a photo of my colleges computer screen from my phone.

    • gonzo0815@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Izzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    If it is more ad than news I’d say this an ad site that happens to have some news.

    • Striker@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yup. And the thing that kills me about this is they are all ads for the exact same company.

  • itsnotlupus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      You know, I never thought about that until now. Not that I send that many links out, but still another thing to think about.

    • railsdev@programming.devEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      This happens to me when I switch to the work VPN. Any websites I had open start flooding with ads.

      I use DNS to block ads but unfortunately I need the DNS from the VPN to access stuff.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • railsdev@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Blocking ads at the DNS level works perfectly for me on iOS. I use a .mobileconfig to set up TLS DNS to my DNS server hosted on Fly.

  • sixapples@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      That’s only because the app is making them money by stealing all the personal info it can from your device instead.