• M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I had this yesterday on my phone. The video was like half an inch wide and silent.

    What’s the purpose of this? It also had some banner at the bottom, so I’m only have to use 30% of the screen to actually read the article.

    The web has become such garbage.

  • Wrench@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    And “news” sites that intentionally delay the relevant images/videos to load after their ads and related stories, so users scrolling around for the only relevant content in the entire “article” see all the ads first.

    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yahoo news is notorious for this. It’s like an ad after every paragraph and every paragraph is just one sentence.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Yeah I hate that with all my soul.

    That reminded me a bit about some odd behavior that have some form of vertical videos like shorts/reels (don’t remember where I saw it) like you are watching a video and then it moves up a bit like to show you (like if you didn’t know) that you can doom scroll forcing you to tap the video to bring it at its original place, this has happened to me several times like, bruh, what the heck is this asshole design.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It stops them from automatically playing in most cases (though there is a bit of an arms race there just like with ad blockers), but it doesn’t stop the video container from floating. And some sites start the video when you click to close the floater, then you have to scroll back up to shut up the video, and some interpret scrolling up to video as “oh I want it to float again”, so you need to close it a second time.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        So there is no add-on that specifically focuses on getting rid of this annoyance?

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know if any exist. They are technically possible, but it would just be another arms race because a blocker would need to use names or patterns to detect those floating boxes, but there’s infinite different ways they can be named or implemented.

  • Pringles@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

    Simple mode in chrome, reading mode (not sure if that’s an extension actually) in firefox. Whatever addon you need to just show the text without the ads. Works on most sites

  • nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I like it on certain sites like YouTube where I can read the comments while watching the video if I want to, but for the majority of sites and especially if the video’s an ad/not the main focus of the page the website can fuck right off.