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Old April 6th 18, 03:58 PM posted to sci.space.station
Brian Gaff
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Yes some sites now won't let you use them if you kill their adverts. This
includes catch up video sites as well. I have no issue with adverts, its
the ridiculously intrusive way they are used that ****es me off.
I also boycott sites using cap chars to decide if you are a human or not.
they often include an audio version, often called a 'challenge' which
usually means they are completely unintelligible.
Then to add insult to injury if you manage to get in and sign up the
advertise to you.
The joke of this is that most spammers seem to have a solution to these
human detectors, so they just keep out humans who cannot fathom out wobbly
writing or hear rubbish speech.
I do think that the web needs to take a good look at itself again, and to
be honest, if I could be sure of ease of use and no adverts, I'd rather pay
a couple of quid than suffer the crap we do now.
Brian

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On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Jeff Findley wrote:

But the thing is, web pages from my point of view are far less
easy to use than a news group and there is no reason why one
cannot have web addresses on a news post, but basic details are
far easier to navigate on here than on a web site with like this
or more heres all over the bleedin place apparantly randomly
distributed with adverts, pop ups and silly animations.

Agreed, but Usenet News just isn't as popular as it used to be.
The number of active posters in the sci.space groups can be counted
on one person's fingers. :-(


With all that Java Script abuse, the web is becoming unusable.
Add in all that commercial primacy, surveillance and censorship,
it's becoming useless.

Whenever a popup balloon interrupts my reading, I disconnect from the
web site. If every body did that, would the web monsters learn?


Yeah, I think I'm going to take one of my spare Raspberry Pi computers
and install Pihole on it to kill all the abusive ads.

Jeff
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