[puranjay]

As an aside, when I landed on this page, I had a sticky sign-in bar from Medium, a sticky menu from Noteworthy, and a sticky bottom bar asking me to sign-up.

The text - what I came to the page for - occupied just 60% of the screen.

What a horrible UI!

[ddebernardy]

Lucky you. I get exactly zero content on my 13" MBA with increased font size:

https://i.imgur.com/Z8bB3sN.png

[Causality1]

That much? I only see the first two lines, and that's with a 16:10 monitor. From the "use a bookmarking system that only works on our website" to the astonishingly poorly-framed author photo to the "clap for this story" social media button which is a term I've never heard before in my life, the poor page layout choices are really dragging down an excellent article.

[asimilator]

https://i.imgur.com/Kz5JHuJ.png

I get only 2/3rds of the headline on mobile.

I guess it’s nice that the Medium app is made for readers, cause their website sure as heck isn’t ...

[trqx]

Is it recursive day? This is what I get when I click on your link.

https://tmp.shroom.party/joy.jpg

[TeMPOraL]

imgur seems to have this weird and annoying habit of detecting you're browsing from a mobile device even on links direct to the image, and then redirecting you to their site and lowering quality of the image you're looking at. At this point I just don't open imgur links when browsing from my phone.

[Causality1]

Imgur has become actively hostile to anyone who browses the mobile website instead of using the app. They've spent years slowly pruning functionality out of the mobile site and just recently announced that in August users won't be able to log into the mobile site at all.

[coldpie]

I have the sticky navbar, which I don't personally find intrusive, and otherwise none of what you mention. Just the article text. I use NoScript. Maybe you should, too?

[ufmace]

I finally started to use Firefox more when the news came about about Google probably dropping support for real adblock. I had always run NoScript on my Firefox, and tended to be reluctant to use Firefox more because of it, due to how much time I needed to spend guessing which scripts to enable to get a site to work well enough. Now that I'm trying to use it more, I'm actually not finding it too bad - it seems to block websites from doing annoying things before I even knew they did it more than needing to fiddle with which scripts to enable.

Oh yeah, also using it in hopes of having real adblock on mobile.

[coldpie]

Yeah I actually installed NoScript on Firefox for Android a couple months back, exactly because of the kind of shit mentioned in this thread[1]. While I recommend NoScript on desktop to anyone with some technical chops, it's clumsy enough on mobile that I'm not ready to recommend it. That said, I still like it better than the popups.

[1] Try to spot the article content! https://twitter.com/ColdPie1/status/1115247985410048001