>reading a story on a news website >go to scroll to the

You mean wordpress template professionals lol

that's a nice article, be a shame if a video started auto-playing while you were trying to read...

>>61249595
It's an attempt to garner more revenue from extended page view length. Psychological, the infinite scroll causes people to stay on the site and page longer via a little mental trickery resulting in more shekels. Eventually this will fix itself. They'll keep changing fundamental aspects of web design to result in more shekels while pissing off users until they don't have anymore. It's all cyclical.

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>>61249595
>click news article
>video starts playing
>pause video
>article auto-exits back to main site

>>61249595
Stop reading fake new, stupid frogposter.

>>61249758
>click news article
>video starts playing
>close the tab and find another source

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>WHY AREN'T MILLENIALS READING LONGFORM NEWS ARTICLES ANYMORE
>click a long article
>1/3 of the page is an uncloseable ad
>constant auto-playing video ads halfway through
>ads for other fucking stories by the same news company splattered throughout
>full-screen ads on mobile
literally fuck every single news company in 2017. I just use 1-2 news aggregators that work by stripping 90% of content and putting them into a different format and have been going back to reading my local paper because the ads there don't make me want to die.

>on /g/
>can't into blocking ads, even on mobile
Get out normies

>>61252116
>even on mobile
It's easier on desktop, so what are you implying?

>>61249595
Easily worked around: use a text mode browser like links or lynx for certain sites.

>>61253248

That's too much work and it rewards their bad behavior. Just block those websites.

>>61249674
>not blocking autoplay

>>61249595
Not webdevs fault, management wanted it

>>61249674
only murican sites do this.

>>61254990
not true I've seen it on a german site.

>>61250236
Fucking this shit right here.

Having to actually go back to newspapers for a better news experience should mark an absolute failure to anyone in web development.

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>>61249595
I don't even use an adblocker on my phone. I just disable javascript entirely. Makes the web much better.

if a site doesn't load without js I just assume it's shit and hit the back button.

nu male web devs need to get it through their head that communications mediums are not fucking art projects

>>61255063
You can't even post on 4chan without JS

>>61255095
that's false

the captcha looks ugly but it still works. try it

> not using pocket

>>61255117
And now I have to manually copy and paste your post ID. Very convenient.

Also have to manually copy and paste captcha code.

>>61255095
Can't you enable JS on a per-site basis?

>>61249758
>click news article
>video at the top starts playing
>pause video
>scroll down
>mini video pops and starts playing
>pause video
>forget what i'm reading

>>61255243
Which phone browser can do that? Maybe Firefox, but that's sluggish

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Only place worth getting news from is /pol/ and pic related

Remember when Forbes begged users to turn off adblock exstensions and then infected them with malware via malicious ads when they did? I do.


Lol.

>>61255670
That twitter feed is garbage. I do agree about /pol/ being the only trustworthy source though (if you can sift through the irony). Half of the news I get now from actual anchors is just what /pol/ has highlighted from AP sources hours earlier.

>>61250236
Yeah but you have to pay actual money for the local newspaper.

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Fucking hate this shit. News websites are like casinos now, simply designed to extract the most amount of money from you.

Blue is nav, red is ads, orange is links to more content, green is '''content''' (which was all lifted from a facebook post anyway). Taken from https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/94523453/driver-pinged-at-114kmh-on-residential-hamilton-street

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>page autoreloads every minute

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>click on article
>turns out it's actually a list...
>separated into a gallery where you have to click next to read the content...
>excpet when you click next and it's an ad

>>61250236
I'm order a local paper subscription right now, Christ in 2017 I'm doing it. It would actually be relaxing to regularly read a paper again. It's been like 15 years since I've even sat down with one .

>>61249595
i just read most of stuff with w3m, if it doesn't work it means it wasn't worth to read that

>>61255273
Works fine for me on android chrone