Holy cow the pop-up ads on this site is so fustrating. Im spending a good chunk of my time on here closing out ads, even when I stay on the same page.
Is this driving anyone else nuts?
Install a subversive ad browser extension (if using a computer) or download Brave browser for your cellular phone.
shareYes.
This really is an excellent site but it’s becoming increasingly annoying on mobile, the ridiculous ads gobble up the phone!
It is maddening, I hear you.
It’s better on a laptop but I’m not walking around with a laptop 99% of the time. The ads have become a pain in the ass on phone!
Sometimes on this site, I get a severe lag, to the point I can't even scroll or type properly. I'm not sure what causes it, but it has only ever happened on this site, and if I open task manager nothing seems to be wrong. Occasionally, the entire browser needs to be closed, and my computer put in standby and re-logged to fix it. Thankfully, that hasn't happened recently.
sharePeople keep complaining about pop up ads, but I've never got one ever. I use DuckDuckGo on my phone and Chrome on my laptop.
shareOn my iPhone the ads often block what I am reading and writing. It also seems to cause the page to reload unexpectedly so often if I try to write something long I have to save frequently or it gets erased.
share"It also seems to cause the page to reload unexpectedly so often if I try to write something long I have to save frequently or it gets erased."
OMG yes. Oh man that pisses me off 😆
The price of freedom is eternal ad closing.
shareTry a vpn. Windscribe give you 10gb free every month. That's plenty for browsing. I subscribed to unlimited so I can watch other country tv.
https://windscribe.com/features/use-for-free/
Get yourself some ad-blockers available on your browser. Privacy Badger and uBlock are popular ones. Ghostery is out, now that nobody's maintaining it.
shareAd blockers have been around for 25+ years and yet there are still people who complain about ads. It's a mystery.
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Not everyone knows about them, and some people are new to the ads and unconsciously have the mistaken impression that they "have to put up with them," not knowing that you can get rid of them unless you complain to more tech-savvy people. I didn't learn about ad-blockers until the mid-2010s, for example, despite using the internet from 1996 onwards.
Seriously, if I could find a way to get the streaming version of YouTube to use ad-blockers on my tv, I SO would do it. I have them on my PC, but I can't figure out how to do it for my Roku other than paying $10 a month to YouTube, and I'm not ready for that kind of thing yet.