• EmergMemeHologram
    24·
    5 months ago

    This is what that news site looks like without ad blocking on

    Holy fuck, ad block is required

    With adblock in Firefox I can read the whole article without the stupid “read more” gate and the obscenely bad ads.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 months ago

      And then I have my ad blocker on mobile and it splashes a banner preventing me from interacting with the site.

      What a garbage site.

      Edit: Switching to desktop view brings up the “I promise to let the corporation fuck me next time” button.

    • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      5 months ago

      serious question, what even is the point of making the user click “read more” to view the (presumably fully-loaded) page?

      • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        It (theoretically) lets them have an idea how many people actually read the article, as opposed to just opening the page

      • EmergMemeHologram
        3·
        5 months ago

        Gives better analytics of how far people read they probably combine it with a N free articles mechanic.