• w3dd1e@lemm.ee
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      22 days ago

      I haven’t set up this yet, but I use AdGuard on my phone and yes, it does leave blank space. Sometimes I don’t realized there was more text to read because it’s empty.

      It’s not about the adblocker though. It’s on the quality of the developer. A good developer tells the browser to leave space for ads before it loads them. It makes the page load faster and also prevents the page jumping around as each item loads.

      Ironically, a bad developer that doesn’t do that, probably has better website layouts for people who use adblockers. 🙃

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        22 days ago

        LOL yeah I actually understand that last part LOL (former web dev, retired). Sites jinking around while the ads load and I’ve already started reading the content are super annoying.

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          22 days ago

          Don’t you love scrolling right when the page loads and you click an ad instead?

          It’s a feature, not a bug! Haha!

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            22 days ago

            One thing I really do hate is a download page with a giant green DOWNLOAD button that’s just an ad link, and the thing I went there to download is a tiny text link.

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      22 days ago

      Yes and no. You just have to see its beauty to get it. I also have been using it for a long ass time, almost a decade, so I could not even tell even tell you what sites look like with ads.

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        22 days ago

        I imagine it’s like me trying to watch a TV show with commercials after 20 years of Netflix. Holy crap, I don’t know how I ever grew up with all that noise.