About a year or two ago I’d open up an article blocked by ad blocker and I’d try tweaking my settings a little, thinking if it were easy, I’d use a bit of effort to get to the writing I wanted to read.
I did that for a while with about a 50/50 chance that one setting or just clicking a few things and I could get to the copy.
Now I don’t really care … there’s a million things to read on the internet … if I see a site and it even throws up a challenge, an extra click or ad blocker has affected it … I don’t even bother, just close it, forget it and move on.
Or if you don’t have an ad blocker running and the site expects you to try to read through a little 1 inch peephole in between the ads. I just write the site off entirely.
It also makes you wonder … what monster thought that was a good design.
Also equally disturbing is … that there are actual people out there who put up with all this and read the content through that little peep hole. I know several of my older less tech savvy friends who put up with all that. I also know a few younger tech ignorant friends who just don’t care.
About a year or two ago I’d open up an article blocked by ad blocker and I’d try tweaking my settings a little, thinking if it were easy, I’d use a bit of effort to get to the writing I wanted to read.
I did that for a while with about a 50/50 chance that one setting or just clicking a few things and I could get to the copy.
Now I don’t really care … there’s a million things to read on the internet … if I see a site and it even throws up a challenge, an extra click or ad blocker has affected it … I don’t even bother, just close it, forget it and move on.
Or if you don’t have an ad blocker running and the site expects you to try to read through a little 1 inch peephole in between the ads. I just write the site off entirely.
It also makes you wonder … what monster thought that was a good design.
Also equally disturbing is … that there are actual people out there who put up with all this and read the content through that little peep hole. I know several of my older less tech savvy friends who put up with all that. I also know a few younger tech ignorant friends who just don’t care.
“We have determined that we’ll be able to fill 80% of the user’s display with advertising before inducing seizures” ~Nolan Sorrento
I’ve been known to add them to my hosts file to make sure they get ignored.