Man, not having adblockers built into my app gives me a view into the world others live in. There was an ad, another ad stacked on top of it, a paragraph and then a other ad.
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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I've been having the same shocking experience. I don't remember seeing ads in the preview browser on Boost for Reddit but I've been using Connect for lemmy and it's overwhelming.
I always press the buttons on top, go to default browser. Which probably is firefox with ublock origin.
I like using the preview browser because then I don't wind up with a bunch of tabs in Firefox
I'm not a developer but when I looked into it, my understanding was that there's two ways to add a preview browser - one that's an embedded chrome window and another that uses your default browser. I could be wrong though
I think you are correct, in some apps the page doesnt have to reload and it blocks ads
Yeah, much of the web is nearly unusable without adblockers; especially on mobile. I don't quite understand why. You'd think it would be both harmful to the site and the advertisers. I.e. the site would recieve less returning users, and advertisers would recieve many low value impressions or accidental clicks (which I think they pay for).
Now that I'm thinking about it, it's probably because most traffic now comes from search engines and other kinds of aggregaters/recommendation engines instead of people purposely returning to sites. Search engines also run ad networks that charge companies on an impression/click basis. So, search engines actually have an incentive to promote shitty ad-filled sites. Still doesn't explain why companies use ad networks that allow this behavior. Also doesn't explain why search engines that don't run these ad networks often return the same results.