1) 33%-height ad for IBM at the top. 2) 20%-height offer to subscribe on the bottom. 3) Overlay asking for my email address which greys out the article.
Scrolling down, there is a autoplay video on the right sidebar along with most read content and ads.
The whole page is so bloated it lags my 1 year old MacBook just scrolling down.
Not a dig at parent, but a general observation.
That is what I said is a common trope, but is an inconvenience, hard to remember, and likely not done by many if any people. You don’t appear to do it either.
Same with your tip jar. You say small sites which isn’t wrong. However in your case you’re only topping the same 2 dozen sites you go to.
Not every site or app has the same engagement necessities. If a site can be visited much less but is very helpful, it’ll likely get much less tip money than a less helpful but regularly visited site that gets your dopamine going. I’m not saying this as fact. It’s something I believe could be true with no backing.
Needs to be somewhat randomized to simulate a real human, so that the supported site wasn't punished for ad pumping (which I am committing, they are not).
Adnauseam clicks everything to ruin the entire ecosystem.
Instead I looked for something like: hide-and-click ads on selected valuable sites, hide-or-block ads everywhere else.
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* * css allow
* * frame block
* * image allow
* 1st-party frame allow
Even more advanced users can set up uBO to work in default-deny mode to only allow resources from specific 3rd-party domains as needed, and on a per-site basis.[2]
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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
However, Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin shows the article without a trace of what you're describing.
Thats the issue with modern web apis: Browsers add them with good intent to allow for modern web apps and improve UX, and advertisers abuse it to cripple UX but bring up "engagement" with the website.