lilja 17 points 2 years ago

Cute article, but does anyone else find it distracting that in between some of the paragraphs there are links to other articles? I know that modern media needs to be engaging to people with TikTok-brain, but I found it somewhat obnoxious.

I counted 5 of these article links which was bad enough, but I can't imagine what it looks like without an ad-blocker.

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NegativeInf 7 points 2 years ago

On mobile I get like 8 inline billboard ads for BestBuy that are larger than the paragraph. One for each article link between the paragraphs. One video that plays at the bottom and scrolls with you, and one video ad at the top that just plays.

How do ads even make money today? I don't think I've ever even clicked one on purpose. Is it just impressions? I feel like companies are just handing money to Google and Facebook without much benefit? Or am I missing something?

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rdyoung 5 points 2 years ago

On mobile I get no ads. You should check out adguard. If you are on android you can install it at the os level and/or you can install the addon to FF

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NegativeInf 3 points 2 years ago

I'm good. I know how to use things. I just wanted to see how many ads I could get on chrome.

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rdyoung 3 points 2 years ago

Then by all means, carry on good sir/madam/???

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gregorum 1 point 2 years ago

It’s also pretty great for iOS

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800XL 4 points 2 years ago

Half of them are in my basement!

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Muffi 1 point 2 years ago

Don't worry, most of them are just running the American nuclear arsenal.

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Blue_Morpho 1 point 2 years ago

I miss Grammatik. It was so good at finding problems and I'm not sure if there's anything as good today 40 years later.

What software today will analyze your paragraph and report:

"Overstated and pretentious"

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