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Re:Google launches new “portal” HTML element by Goronmon on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:02PM (#19882200)
I've had a similar experience as the GP, and I find it awful that autoplay videos will follow you around the page, pop-up modals will interrupt you in the middle of reading something, and ads will take up 40% or more of the page, loading between paragraphs while reading. It's hugely distracting to me.

Why would you ever spend time on a site that did these things? Even if you have an adblocker, why would you use such a site on purpose?

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Re:Google launches new “portal” HTML element by ppseafield on Friday May 10, 2019 @06:18PM (#19882799)
You don't always know what a link is going to serve you before you go there.
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Re:Google launches new “portal” HTML element by Wowfunhappy on Friday May 10, 2019 @06:44PM (#19882968)
And if the page served is unreadable, you immediately hit the back button and move on. :)
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