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Can we talk about how cancerous PCGamer is, for a second? I want to read an article, and the screen is like 80% advertising.
I don't get any ads (Fennec + uBlock), but half into the article, a newsletter pop up showed up and the website scrolled back to the top. I closed the website immediately
The irony is that if we didn't have the tracking scripts blocked then they might actually receive the metrics about how we close their website as soon as the newsletter popup occurs, leading them to fix or remove it. Probably not though.
I don't think Lemmy users are representative of their target demographic. The vast majority of people seem to just put up with ads
Ads, I can block. The shitty part of the site are the unrelated things getting shoved in the middle of the article.
Setting uBlock this way solves it for me
Good tip. I always forget I can do this and block specific elements if I want.
Looks like a skill issue. I didn't see any of those things when I opened the link.
Firefox Focus rise up
iPhone + Safari + AdGuard
Reader mode in Firefox fixed it.
I love reader mode. ~~I Use it to bypass pay walls, too~~ Did someone say something?
@BossDj @Speculater 🤫 It's a secret. 🤐
You must not have adguard set up properly (maybe some of your blocklists are disabled or unupdated?).
No ads or popups on my end