Advertising being allowed to become the dominant monetization method for the internet was a mistake.
I’ve never seen anything that makes most of its money from advertising that doesn’t get worse and worse for it over time as a result. Once you let the advertisers in they will ruin whatever it is they are being allowed to leech off of. Might take 1 year, might take 20, but once they get that foot hold they will run it into the ground because like a billionaire and money, it is never enough.
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So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect “ad-unsafe” works that wouldn’t get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.
So we tore the ads back out, traffic’s recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we’re doing better without ads than we were with ads.
Right click up on the toolbar and select “Customize Toolbar”. Uncheck “Title Bar” to get ride of the text at the top of the screen.
What does that have to do with ads?
It has to do with taking up screen space. “Advertising and headers take up …”. The title bar is sort of a header, so I posted how to remove it.
Then the ads and header will only take up 47% of the screen!
don’t forget to manually enable the annoyances and cookie banners filters as they help a lot.
you can enable CSD in firefox to cut down on these titlebars a bit
CSD?
i should have been more specific: client-side decorations.
boils down to not having a separate titlebar. by right clicking an empty spot in the tab bar and clicking “customize toolbar”, there will be an option to disable it, and get more vertical pixels of screen space. it will work more like windows and most linux environments. i don’t know why OP’s isn’t doing this by default, it should.
if you want even more vertical space, go to about:config, set compactmode to true, then a more compact ui will be available in the customize toolbar menu. vertical tabs are not bad either after you get used to them.
on the linked page, i get a giant header image and headline, followed by the article text (which accounts for just 15% of the vertical space on my 16:10 screen).
when i scroll as you have, there’s no elements glued to the top getting in the way.
(ubo and um both enabled)
Guess you need to invest in a vertical 34" monitor
If you have ublock origin you should be able to use the element picker to block that frame.
It is disabled now for me on chrome. Forced to use ublock lite bs.
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Since using ublock origin I can’t remember the last time it didn’t automatically hide those now empty elements.
I’ve had to use it a few times on non-english sites but I agree, most of the time ublock handles those automatically.
yeah i’m doing it through the dev console, still annoying.
That’s why reading mode exists, I use it all the time when I see sites as cluttered as this. Great feature.
(It’s the little rectangle icon near the bookmark button, on the navigation bar)
They should add a per-site setting to use reading mode by default.
That’s a great idea.
Surprisingly safari does, but you should still use Firefox (maybe there is an extension?)
Just get a bigger screen. But you can’t buy bigger screens these days except as smart TVs or monitors… And those smart screens can detect when you aren’t interacting with them and display ads…
It’s worse on mobile.
That sucks. As one of the workarounds I have vertical taskbar and tabs. Our screens have more horizontal space than we usually need.
Block the elements with an ad blocker if it’s a site you frequent often .
Can you use uBlock Origin to remove the DIV for the ad? Or is it using randomly generate IDs?
If its predictable at least partly you can hide it with ublock origin and something like ##div[class^=“classThatContainAds”]
edit: But I didn’t have to, it was removed automatically
only 50%?
those are rookie numbers. I frequently come across sites that block around 75%
You will soon miss the display banner as it’s at least honest for being an ad. AI will soon have ads weaved in the text itself.
I’d rather have ads placed in the text in a context that makes sense than the abomination of a system we have now that is both intrusive and irrelevant.
I’d rather have manipulative content placed in the text in a context that makes sense than the abomination of a system we have now that is both intrusive and irrelevant.
