Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads

Re:Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads by a3n on Monday October 31, 2016 @02:07PM (#12839353)

Even without these types of ads, mere performance compels me to use an ad blocker.

I've recently been playing around with different Linux distros, and so installed Firefox multiple times if it wasn't already there. I'm the type of person who queues up a number of tabs for reading.

At the NYT, at about four or five tabs open, the laptop becomes unusable, because of all the ad downloading.

And now, the absolute first thing I do after opening FF the first time is to install ublock origin. The web is all but unusable for me without it.

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Re:Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads by nucleardog on Monday October 31, 2016 @07:49PM (#12842030)

I'm not one of those people that actively does much about ads or online privacy. I have friends that obsess over the stuff and probably spend as much time as I do online just adjusting custom uBlock/whatever else lists.

But I finally switched off of Chrome on Android and over to Firefox where I could install uBlock because of these fucking Taboola ads. Trying to read sites and the entire page would be jumping around as my phone slowly struggled its way into loading and displaying them.

Sorry, ad industry, I'm not going to take the time to weed out the bad actors. As soon as you annoy me enough that I feel I need to do something I'm taking the nuclear option and blocking everything - it's just easier.

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