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Scrolling through a page on my phone and as I am away from my PC I noticed loads of ads. And I noticed a new little bit of country - below each ad there is a block of white space, and as you scroll each ad PAUSES at the top of the screen and you have to keep scrolling to make the successive text scroll up through the white space and eventually push the ad away.

What absolute cunt thought that little bit of shittiness up? Someone fucking coded that. I hope they never have a good vindaloo again.

Also on that same page: video window I did not ask for opened itself and stuck itself to the top of the screen forcing me to close it; banner appeared unbidden at the bottom and although I closed it the same one reopened several times as I scrolled down.

JUST REMEMBER I CLOSED IT FOR FUCKS SAKE.

Giles Goat

@llamasoft_ox Speaking of unwanted ADS, I know that "Amazon Video" is PAID for it's NOT free .. well it seems now "almost 90% of stuff" HAS ADS IN IT !! Part of the "trick" seems to be that now "a lot of stuff" doesn't come from "Amazon" but from "Freevee" ( or the heck is called ) that "is free WITH ADS" .. Skype is blasting with ads, everything is blasting with ads ! Remember Mailchimp ? Now there's an ad that claims they added AI in for TARGETED ADS so YOU BUY MORE !! I don't buy MORE CONT.

@llamasoft_ox CONT. for A VERY SIMPLE REASON and that's why "ads don't work on me" .. BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE MUCH MONEY TO SPEND !! 😅 😡 Isn't it amazing what you can NOT buy when you don't have money ? 😂 People should learn this very simple lesson "don't buy" and then "ads will be totally useless" and they'll stop !

@gilesgoat I remember thinking the same when Sky TV launched in the 1990s. "I pay money for it, _and_ you show me ads? What?!"