What godawful browser is injecting that ai nonsense? The ads are bad enough but the browser itself seems to be using 1/3rd of the screen
Idk why the other guys saying it’s some edge browser. This is the google app on iPhone. The bottom part pops up when you click on articles because they’re pushing their AI summaries. It’s actually a great feature but it’s annoying how much space it takes up
I love how it just keep getting worst as I scroll.
Weird, I don’t see anything like this on firefox.
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Yup. I work from home and have a pihole on my network at home so I’ve gotten used to not seeing the ads.
Was browsing on mobile data while on the road and was reminded why its necessary. It was unbearable.
use nextdns
I’m working on setting up a VPN, so even when mobile I’ll connect back through my home network to view filtered adverts. At least, I might end up using DNS from my home anyway.
What, you don’t enjoy ads on your articles that are also ads?
Firefox and uBlock Origin…. Now sadly I wish I could find something like that on iPhone.
Change the phone dns to nextdns.io or adguards dns. Use dns over https if possible.
Just use adguard on an iPhone. I see 0 ads across all apps I use.
Not sure atm what the extension I use for safari on iPhone is called, but it works great for me. I‘ll look it up when I get to it
Late Update: I use Hyperweb, the free version is totally enough for me and works great
And yet they’re baffled as to why so many people use adblockers
Why do you choose to view ads? Inaction is a choice.
Calyxos+firefox+ublock for phone
Gentoo+librewolf+ublock for the home
I had to use the mobile version of Chrome recently on a locked down work device with an MDM policy that prevented installation of other browsers. It made me realize I had no idea just how far gone the mobile web has become with ads.
As an experiment I grabbed a random article on my Google News feed for today and opened it in Chrome with no ad blocking allowed and Samsung Internet with ad blocking enabled to compare.
Chrome produces a nightmarish hell scape of ads that just gets worse the further down you scroll.
Samsung Internet isn’t perfect because there is still a large banner taking up space at the top of the screen, but it blocks all of the ads in the article along with the website’s own ads for other articles.
The cynic in me, however, acknowledges that the truth of the situation looks more like this, even with ad blocking enabled.
Thanks for the this, I got a chuckle. Especially gizmodo…
Would be nice if such behaviour tanked SEO
From what I understand, web crawlers see a totally different version of the site than users do
Only due to using a different user agent, it’s totally possible to build a for-the-people pagerank that would see what we see and deprioritize stuff like ads and fluff on recipe pages
it’s totally possible to build a for-the-people pagerank that would see what we see and deprioritize stuff like ads and fluff on recipe pages
Why haven’t you built it then?
No profit in doing it.