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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world Fredselfish @lemmy.world 6 mo. ago

This more than mild

The Fucking ad covers the content I literally could not get back into his comic strip because of the Fucking unremoveable ad covering the content. Guess time for that ad blocker.

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Ublock origin on Firefox. You'll be shocked at how fast pages will load
- Just installed unblock anc you are correct.
Holy shit, Something Positive is still going.
- The creator is also currently the guy behind the Popeye comics, the Sunday newspaper ones!
  
  Yeah, I read his comic's 22nd anniversary blurb and learned that Popeye is still going after over a century ...
  
  Oh what. That's weird.
I have pi-hole running for network level ad blocking, it always confuses me when not at home and I see ads
- Firefox mobile + ublock and you'll never see ads again
- What is the best tutorial for this.
  
  I use the Control D private DNS, which performs similar functions to a pi-hole, but I think is easier to set up.
Idk. Sure, use an ad blocker, but the medium is also content - if the comic author wants their site to be so full of ads that their content is unreadable then tbh I'm probably going to give up reading. Ads like that don't just happen by accident - ad placement is just as much an artistic decision as the colour palette they use
- Not all webcomic authors are also well versed in web design. There's a good chance this is a WordPress theme for comics and a plug-in for ads, maybe with more third party add-ons.
  
  Then you load up your site, go "oh, those ads make my site look like garbage", and turn the plugin off. Ads don't magically appear, someone has to actively decide that they want them and that they are happy with the trade off for user experience
  
  If that is the Something Positive I read a decade ago he should know how to make a website by now, and it was not that bad back then.
- Got ad blocker now can read the comics. Maybe it was a sign for me to finally get one. I use to not be bothered by them plus figure how artists gets funds outside of Patron but goddamm never was they that bad.
- People publish their comics into platforms nowadays, and if the author uses an ad-blocker, they may not even know how the comics appear in a naive browser.
  
  But, continuing there or not, the OP is well advised to install a blocker, just like everyone else. Both for information security reasons (many of those ads are nasty for your computer) as for personal health reasons (many of those ads are nasty for your brain). All of those being attacks that nobody ever consented to (as they are forced into you without a chance for you to consent).
  
  And rest assured, all of that is only getting to become worse on the near future.
Mething Positive.

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