Whatever you do, don’t install Ad Block Plus, because then you won’t be able to whine anymore.
I use my back button a lot.
I hear ya, and I concur.
You do know the greatest minds of this millenial age have been co-opted to make ads work on websites? At least, that was the lament of some silicon valley douche that I read somewhere last year.
If a web page takes more than 10% of your CPU and more than 10MB of memory to run, it is taking too much.
I was on a website the other day that had 3 video ads running at the same time.
uBlock Origin and Chrome is a good combo.
I call many websites now “Java Junkyards.” Why was I able to get to the information on their sites without all the attached manure years ago. It’s not an improvement.
Disable flash and that kills a lot of unwanted video
Even here. Someone posts an article and by the time I can actually read the article at the website I have lost interest. Not the posters fault of course.
I’m with you. Some sites I refuse to go to anymore. Waste my time.
I use ghostery.
And it’s not the designers, it’s their management.
Web ads have been destined to fail. As this becomes more obvious, the management gets more desperate.
Forbes and Wall Street Journal are the worst.
Now Forbes won’t let you on their site if you have an ad blocker. Which means Forbes gets no hits from me.
What I don’t get is what advertisers are stupid enough to pay to be on a site that nobody can or will view their ads? Either because the site will crash their browser or they have an ad blocker. Stupid.
And my father would say "Son, those commercials that you hate to sit through are the reason that shows exist for you to watch. See, the companies these commercials are for pay a lot of money to the TV station to show them. These companies do this because more people will then buy their products. Then the TV station pays some of that money from the advertisers back to the studios who produce those shows so that they can keep making more shows."
And I would say "Gee whiz Dad, I didn't know TV was that complicated. Well I sure am glad for commercials then because otherwise I would not get to see Lassie or The Beaver! I guess I can learn to like the commercials."
And I did learn to like the commercials. And when I grew up, I bought lots of stuff. Then I subscribed to Netflix and never saw another commercial again.
THE END
Ditto everything you said and then some. I especially like the slideshows with a pop up blocking any description of the pic.
Everyone who wished Flash to go away when they could just turn off Flash Player or uninstall it will really hate HTML5 ads. Now advertisers just create the same annoying bloated ads without Flash but you can’t turn off those ads as easily.
The ones that annoy me are the “slideshow” pages that not only drag you through ten pages for what could be accomplished with one, but they design each page with little ad right beside the “next page” button with arrows that look deceptively like a graphic to go to the next page, and the pages also jump around erratically while loading, making it very easy to inadvertently click one of those ads. Some even time a popup ad to open over that “next page” button just as you go to click it. They need to start getting paid for conversion rather than just click-through, that would stop this nonsense. Nobody is going to buy a thing from a site they were tricked into opening.
That is not the half of it. Websites have become generally unreadable due to the “handheld idiot device” revolution.
Used to be everything was on the screen, you could look around, see what’s what - then, all the websites were redisigned to make them more “idiot handheld device”-friendly. (One of the last website to undergo this DOWNgrade was the Townhall.com, for example, just very recently. ESPN, for example, did this several years ago, along with starting to promote European soccer leagues that no one in the US will EVER be interested in)
Now you see two headlines, no details, and you have to scroll and scroll to see more - headlines (links), no details.
*”Idiot Handheld Device” is a term I coined to describe the USERS of these devices, rather than the technology that makes them possible.
May the webdesigners who have ruined the “desktop” internet surfing experience burn in he** for all eternity (said with my tongue planted only partly in my cheek. ;>)
Blow up your tv
Throw away your paper
Go to the country
Build you a home
Plant a little garden
Eat a lot of peaches
And try and find Jesus
On your own.
For android devices, block ads by rooting your android device and installing ADAWAY. It works great on my Moto E android phone and Lenovo android tablet.