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Good god, yeah, Fandom's sites are all heinous

Aye. Kill the trackers. Vet the ads. Place them where they won't fuck up what people came for. uBlock will vanish within a month. Or spend millions trying to squeeze out a bit more "shareholder value" from folks who will fight you every step of the way. Arrogant dumbasses chose the latter.

Also, it is known that [some] advertisers strive to collect personally-identifiable data about those on whom their ads are inflicted, and some of those sell the data they have collected, and some of the data that is sold ends up in malicious hands.

funniest part is how most legacy newspapers' websites melt down their *paying* subscribers' phones

Oh this is like my biggest First World nuisance given how often I have to consult the same busted online websites whenever I'm playing FINAL FANTASY XI.

What's funny is it's not even the just the ad stuff on every news site that makes it unusable. It's the autoplaying videos and any number of other random shit your phone starts to run when you're just trying to read something. Just horrible design choices of doing too much.

Yeah, but how else will i find out how to melt pounds of pure belly fat or the one weird trick that cures diabetes?

"everything works fine from me" from a person who doesn't realize that pop up blocking is so ubiquitous at this point that browsers have it set as a security setting by default

I love the static ad that displays behind the whole article, so I can read about bombing hospitals in Gaza while never forgetting the Tangy Zip of Miracle Whip

Also, my current hobby horse I'm trying to get people to spread: The value of the data they have on us has *never* been what they believe it to be, and the more they collect, the less valuable it becomes every day. Consumer capture has come through *consolidation*, NOT focused ads.

I tried keeping it off for a webcomic I read, but there's now a Gemini AI popup that's part of the ad-sense suite that loads in every time, so it was finally time to push the button on that site as well. (Just checked to see that it's still there)

Not to mention the amount of literally malicious ads the services are pushing without ever checking them.

if these ads are what the open internet is then i’m not sure i do care that it exists

Because I'd be happy to pay $.25 for a piece of reporting if all I had to do was click and enter a passcode. But i knew people working on that in the 90's and I guess the payment processors just make it impractical.

I really lose my shit when I accidentally click on an ad.