[g19205]

I stopped installing adblockers, instead I don't interact with sites with heavy ads. in fact I didn't read op, because there's like a dozen of ads on that theregister page. I realized that I don't lose much. Danny O'Brien coined the term "hinternet", the bad neighborhoods of the internet that normal, non techie people are forced to interact with (this was back when such a distinction still made sense). a lot of internet is hinternet now, even more so than before, and it's almost liberating to aggressively reject it.

(I'm not going full Richard Stallman about it, sometimes I'll suffer the ads for content, I throw many articles into archive.is, which only shows one ad at the bottom, and I think it's worthwhile to support them, etc.)

[thiht]

> I stopped installing adblockers, instead I don't interact with sites with heavy ads

Or, you know, just install an adblocker.

I have no idea why people would voluntarily not install an adblocker today, you’re just making your life more difficult for no valid reason. No matter how you justify it, your experience without an adblocker is strictly worse than my experience with an adblocker.

You’re rejecting less by allowing some ads to get through than rejecting all ads in bulk.

[g19205]

or, you know, instead I'm going to continue with my strategy, but you do you. I can't believe it's 2024, and we have to have a conversation about personal preferences, so odd, right?

[tzs]

> in fact I didn't read op, because there's like a dozen of ads on that theregister page

Huh? Unless they are serving you a vastly different page than they serve me that's not the case.

UBlock Origin blocks 4 things right away, 3 of which seem to be ads and the logging or analytics. Then sitting on the page over the next few minutes that rises to 7, with the new ones all seeming to be logging or analytics.

Refreshing the page several times to see different ads, they were always either short banners that spanned the page or a square in the middle of the column about 2/3 of the column width.

Most of the time they were not animated. The only animated ones I saw just had an animated fade in which lasted maybe half a second and then it was static.

[g19205]

I overexagerated, it feels like dozen of ads by the real estate they take up. you're technically and precisely correct by your definition. I just don't go to most news paper and magazine websites.