Unfuck the Internet
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- mg331
I'm tired of content as the secondary purpose to a page whose sole goal is ad impressions. Tired of the illogical breakup of paragraphs into segments jammed full of ads, autoplaying videos, snippets of other articles, etc.
And those slow-scrolling, over-the-content 3/4 page size ads on mobile that scroll at half the speed of the page when the ad isn't there. KILL THEM.
- detritus-1
No, I do not want to log in to view public content.
Destroy all walled gardens.
- see paywalled content: copy-paste the title to google lol :Dsted
- I meant more the likes of Facebook or Instagram with their constant pop-ups.
I don't consider that 'ublic' content - that's paid-for journalism.detritus - I pay for three news sources and see no problem with their pay-walls, where they decide to place them.detritus
- Sorry - I don't consider 'news sources' as 'public' content. I mean more small businesses and shit that use the likes of FB for their promotion. Fools.detritus
- i'm not against closed systems if they truly serve their original purposested
- and i agree those who think that promoting their shit on fb is a good idea are idiots :Dsted
- +onlysted
- Aye, it's sickening to have a peek in there and see how utterly rapt Normal users are, how oblviious they are to what they're feeding in to :\detritus
- _niko0
I don't want to watch your shitty 30 second ad just so you can tell me that the content I wanted to watch initially isn't available in my country.
I don't give a fuck why doctors hate this housewife.
No, #3 on your shitty clickbait link will not shock me.
- detritus0
re: Content sites that rely upon ad revenue but are beholden to ad networks which are untrustworthy, so we use ad-blockers, so therefore don't support the payment of content we may value...
http://arstechnica.co.uk/securit…
(I don't use an ad-blocker... I may start)
- < I consider myself fairly tech and internet savvy, but I can barely begin to wrap my head around this level of meddlery.detritus
- zaq0
- scarabin0
ad-blocker walls
- whatthefunk0
i useGhostery (https://www.ghostery.com/) for ad blocking b/c having worked in media for years the amount of shit those ads pull is god awful. But, I agree with Detritus' comment - editorial content has to make money some how and as a struggling industry support your news website by either not blocking ads or subscribing.
- sted1
We want quality and relevant content provided by competent people, and be able to connect and share our thoughts or data with our friends and family or anyone around the world without the censorship of a higher power whether it's a private company or the collective governing the country where we live.
What we don't want is to be violently redirected towards consumer goods, ideologies, and unnecessary factors influencing our goal.
And I don't want to see the latest "news" on a site made for connecting people, boobs and asses in technews, the ad about a fucking website making service on a portal for developers.
it's fucking hard question how to fix this, but i'm sure that one of the best steps would be to kill that nonsense that facebook is the internet.
and that's my unfuck tool:
- instrmntl-1
Allow Notications
- dorf1
the problem with the web - at least now - is that marketing people were allowed on here and ruined everything.
- d_gitale0
Don't tell mekk
- sureshot1
I am just tired. Good morning.
- Hayoth-5
So....to fix the internet we don't use captchas and have websites that don't scroll.
Sounds pretty easy fix to me.
- Turboslacker0
What has been fucked can not be unfucked...