Video playing, ad that scrolls, two lines of a story, the bottom popping up with notifications every few minutes over the top of more scrolling ads.

Yay internet.

Edit: Oh wow! Did not expect so many responses. First let me say, thank you for taking the time to read and respond! To address the biggest response to use Firefox I actually have it on my phone it’s just remembering to break the habit. This was more to show what an average user who just uses what they’re used to experiences on mobile browsing.

    • reddit_sux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      96·
      1 year ago

      Also Firefox gives you reading mode which gives you well formatted text without distracting images or ads.

      Sometimes help you to circumvent site registration and read the article.

      Also supports dark mode.

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Also Firefox gives you reading mode which gives you well formatted text

        That this is needed, is sad. Not because of ads but feature creep in the web standards.

      • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Chromium browsers offer ‘simplified view for web pages’. In the accessibility settings . It does not work on all page though.

        But yeah, just use Firefox or one of it’s forks like Mull

        • reddit_sux@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Chromium offering is limited, mixes text from article with some other text, sometimes made stuff completely unreadable.

          • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Agreed, but it can be useful sometimes. For instance, I’m writing this in the Voyager app, if I tap a link it will open it in Mulch. I also have UntrackMe, with that I can use any app for the link. The simplified view can also sometimes work when an app uses Android System Webview as it’s browser engine.

        • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Safari also supports content blockers. They are not as powerful as uBlock Origin on Firefox, but still better than nothing.

      • ironsoap@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The last Firefox on android that really worked for me with the about:reader?url=http://… Ability to force pages into it was 68, which I keep around for that reason.

        Can 117 do it on all pages?

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Most pages. You click the button on the right hand side of the address bar when it’s visible and it’ll always work. On some pages the button is hidden, so I’m guessing those don’t have an obvious way to format for reader mode.

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Still works for me. Sometimes I have to hit refresh after putting it in reader mode to load the entire article.

    • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      extremely unlikely u would see the trashiest trash if u just had a host blocker (firefox strict, ublock, umatrix, etc…)

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      uBlock isn’t going to block pop-ups that are from the website you’re visiting.

      • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        u probably donteven need an adblocker.
        i bet there is a config to disable popups. (might break some legitimate use cases)

      • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        The EU Digital markets Act will eventually be fixing that, for better or worse.

        Mozilla are already working on an iOS port apparently, just need Apple to (begrudgingly) open the doors.

          • EatBorekYouWreck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            1 year ago

            Still better then the dumpster fire of nonupdated and unoptimized androids. I bet my old iphone 8 plus still feels smoother with 2GB ram then the new pixel

      • llii@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I use Firefox and Firefox Klar which integrates into Firefox on iOS. I see no ads.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        Edit: deleting my comment because it’s useless to reply to a crypto bro

      • themz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Safari on iOS supports extensions. Chrome on Android does not. But hey, keep telling yourself that Google are better than Apple at this.

        • jack@monero.townEnglish
          42·
          1 year ago

          Who cares about Google? Chrome is trash. You don’t understand that in the Android world I can install infinite different browsers. I am not dependent on what one company allows. Must be hard to understand for an Apple brain.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1105·
    1 year ago

    I think all the people who are recommending things like Firefox plus uBlock are missing the point. Mobile internet shouldn’t require that to be readable. It’s bad design and it should be discouraged. If you want advertising on your site, fine, but don’t make it so obtrusive that it makes the site literally unreadable.

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeEnglish
      491·
      1 year ago

      Mobile internet shouldn’t require that to be readable.

      You’re right, but we can’t realistically affect web designers directly. We can only control our devices, so we should focus our energy there first.

    • optissima@possumpat.ioEnglish
      343·
      1 year ago

      No, they’re not missing the point. We all agree that mobile should have readability, it’s just that the reality is we have no way to enforce it. Also, Firefox extensions like “Automatic Reader View” allow you to whitelist websites and force Firefox Reader view by default, as an attempt to create a plage more like what you are looking for without needing top down force that it would require to fix the issue (we all know chrome won’t do it)

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      We know… they don’t care. They don’t give a shit if you can read their site, as long as they can trick you into clicking an ad.

    • metallic_substance@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!

      As a human race, we have developed such amazing technologies over the last 30 years. It’s staggering. My political ideologies don’t really skew much near communism, but holy shit. This is the closest I’ve come in a long time to cracking open my copy of The Marx-Engels Reader in long time

      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You know what makes me sad? Knowing that the most talented and creative minds on our time are probably working on the advertising industry.

    • dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Ladbible gamingbible is a site with no original content it is all copy pasted or stolen packed with ads.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.mlEnglish
        103·
        1 year ago

        Most apps, including Lemmy apps, open links in an internal browser which does not have those features.

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          15·
          1 year ago

          You can usually change that in the settings. If not (at least on Android and on the app I’m currently using) if you open a link in your lemmy app, then click the “…” menu (in Connect and my previous reddit app, it was on the top right) there is an option to “open in Firefox,” or “open in external app.” This will open the link in your browser instead of having to view it in your lemmy app.

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        IPhone users can’t do this. It’s actually only available on Android. I was surprised to find this out earlier this year.

        I have some friends who think they are superior because they can use ichat… It’s pretty sad. Like… Oh no, I’m a green chat box. I guess I’ll cry into Revanced and Firefox for mobile. Plus, even if I had an iPhone, I’d still be using Signal.

        • didnt_readit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          You may also be surprised to find out that the Safari browser that comes with iOS has extensions support and even special support for content blockers (aka ad blocking extensions) that works great.

    • PeWu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      The only way to go honestly.

      If you wanna get extra comfy, also Dark Reader.

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use AdNauseum. It has uBlock built in but also clicks ads in the background, costing advertisers money, and poisoning your web profile.

  • Resonosity@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    Firefox Mobile has uBlock Origin that works on every site, even in incognito mode. Give it a try if this post pains you!

  • Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    I’m reminded of that Futurama episode where the gang logs onto year-3000 VR internet and is immediately assaulted by a vicious swarm of flying viagra ads.

  • gamer@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    And the cherry on top is that the article is probably AI generated garbage anyways

    • Jeanschyso@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      When was that? I only really got into computers around the time of windows 98 and back then everything was a pop-up on the internet. You would actually go to war against the popups, trying to close more that were opening.

      Maybe that was on XP tho because I don’t really remember it that well. I certainly remember looking up what the word incest meant for a school assignment and having to rush to close popup ads at the public library. It was the first time I used the internet and it was not a great first impression.