The ads are website popups have gone batshit crazy

[Nebell]

Look at below insanity:

On top of that, scrolling through the website shows more ads. It starts poping up windows to subscribe to newsletters and in the middle of the article is a video that is irrelevant to it, yet when I scroll further down the video pops up in a mini window and stays there, lol.
Yes ads are what these free websites get revenue from, but what the actual fuck? They are EVERYWHERE. When did the world decide it's ok to cover everything that is not in the article with ads?
It's not just techradar, but a bunch of websites are this retarded.

My phone is connected to private dns and my PCs are using uBlock Origin so I see zero ads, above image is taken at work.
If you're not blocking ads, how do you cope with all that mess?

 

[harbingerofdoom]

My favorite is sites now actively blocking being loaded in browser if an ad blocker is present.
This behavior is exactly why I use adblocker. And now you are going to say your site is SO valuable I must be assailed with ads to see your AI generated crap content that contains spelling and grammatical errors (and a lot of times factual errors too)?

If you put your stuff behind a paywall (or block loading due to ad-blockers), you yourself do not consider it to be valuable enough on its own. If thats the case, I'm not missing anything by not seeing it.

 

[toast0]

I put up with a lot of ads because most of my professional salary came from working at ad-supported companies, but at some point, I broke. There's too many shitty ads, all over the place.

From experience, stuffing more ads on the page can make a little more money in the short term, but it kills the user experience, which means people don't come back. Smaller sites have a much harder time getting quality ads; advertisers don't want to deal with individual sites, and ad networks don't want to give individual sites control or limit technical abilities. And there's no trust between any of the parties, so everything has to be done in ways that suck for the user.

 

[Absalom]

My favorite is sites now actively blocking being loaded in browser if an ad blocker is present.
This behavior is exactly why I use adblocker. And now you are going to say your site is SO valuable I must be assailed with ads to see your AI generated crap content that contains spelling and grammatical errors (and a lot of times factual errors too)?

If you put your stuff behind a paywall (or block loading due to ad-blockers), you yourself do not consider it to be valuable enough on its own. If thats the case, I'm not missing anything by not seeing it.

Some of those sites doing the ad blocker detection are just putting up an overlay after detection. It's simple enough in Chrome to hit F12 then remove the overlay with maybe a little HTML, CSS & javascript know how to get everything right.

The more sophisticated sites are detecting ad blockers before actually loading all the content. I guess props to them for doing it the right way? Doesn't make it any less annoying. And I just move along with those because they are typically pay walled anyway.

I wish there was a way in google search engine to block sites that use ad blocker detection. I mean it should work both ways as far as I'm concerned.