A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales

Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by kace91 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:01PM (#25215637)

Damn, that's an unreadable page. I've got ads (or white space if using ad blockers ) the height of my whole phone screen,a cookie banner that blurs the background, a close button following me around and discracting me with the filing animation, a static button for the smartphone view (that's exactly the same?), A footer that appears if I scroll up and from that point on stays in place...

What else could they do to actively make users run away? Sirens blazing?

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Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by tgsovlerkhgsel on Thursday November 26, 2020 @01:39AM (#25217468)

With uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger, I encountered nothing. No unexpected white space, no cookie banner at all, no close button or animation. This was on desktop though.

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Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by smegger001 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:24PM (#25216304)

this is why i hate the mobile web. its getting to the point i am seriously considering a text mode browser on my phone.

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Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by trianglem on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:26PM (#25216559)

Interesting. I’m on iOS in the US and saw none of that except a banner at the bottom. Is this directed advertising or is there some other reason it’s not the same for me.

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Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by kace91 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:58AM (#25218204)

I'm in the EU, but other than that I was using pretty much the same (safari on ios, iphone 12, with a content blocker )

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Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by danwills on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:50PM (#25216164)

Agreed, though I found if I pressed reader mode quickly enough (Opera on Android) then I got a pretty readable result.

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Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by Razengan on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:19AM (#25219316)

> What else could they do to actively make users run away?

Comic Sans and fellow-kids memes

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Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by edem on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:12AM (#25219258)

Any time I encounter a page like this (I also got a paywall) I disable Javascript, and if it doesn't help I just leave.

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Re:A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales by edem on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:11AM (#25219252)

marquee!

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