gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoadvertising and headers take up 50% of screen spacediscuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1368arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1366arrow-down1imageadvertising and headers take up 50% of screen spacediscuss.tchncs.degandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square67fedilinkfile-text
Link to the article: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/spacex-notches-major-wins-during-tenth-starship-test/
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 day agouhm, i’m not sure how to respond to that. let me think about it for a long time.
minus-square3abas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 hours agoThe question isn’t why you avoid sites that use ads, it’s why you don’t have an ad blocker for the one-off situations that you do, like this one. Or did you go to that particular article on techcrunch as part of your routine of checking if you made the right choice to avoid such sites? Clearly sometimes you have to go to those sites, and when you do, you’re exposing yourself to ads, tracking, and potential malware unnecessarily…
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours agoIt’s also way faster to browse with an adblocker because your browser isn’t connecting, downloading and processing a bunch of images and scripts to present that bullshit. Like 80% faster.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 hours ago3 hours is an insignificant amount of time to me >.<
minus-squaresunbytes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 hours agoHe’s just gone out to buy cigarettes. He’ll be home any day now.
uhm, i’m not sure how to respond to that. let me think about it for a long time.
The question isn’t why you avoid sites that use ads, it’s why you don’t have an ad blocker for the one-off situations that you do, like this one.
Or did you go to that particular article on techcrunch as part of your routine of checking if you made the right choice to avoid such sites?
Clearly sometimes you have to go to those sites, and when you do, you’re exposing yourself to ads, tracking, and potential malware unnecessarily…
It’s also way faster to browse with an adblocker because your browser isn’t connecting, downloading and processing a bunch of images and scripts to present that bullshit. Like 80% faster.
It’s been 3 hours.
3 hours is an insignificant amount of time to me >.<
He’s just gone out to buy cigarettes. He’ll be home any day now.