With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm. Data shows an apparent change at Facebook in May caused website traffic to tank at some news sites.
  • walkingears@beehaw.org
    16·
    2 years ago

    I wouldn’t mind as much if half the websites out there didn’t have the trashiest ads I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve got an ad blocker on my desktop but not on my phone. Amazing that supposedly “professional” businesses are filling their sites with sleazy ads that look like they’ll lead you directly to installing a bunch of viruses.

    • wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      Pi-hole and a vpn on my phone keeps me ad free everywhere, and with extensions on firefox on pc and andriod it keeps other annoyances that aren’t ads away

      • blindsight@beehaw.org
        6·
        2 years ago

        AdAway says it’s blocked 200K advertisers since I got my new phone less than a month ago.

        I don’t love the Pixel 7a’s size or battery life, but I can’t go to a phone I can’t root. Call recording and AdAway are non-negotiable.

        I also needed root to get LineageOS-style “hold hardware button to activate flashlight” to work. I could live without that, but it would be very annoying not to have a flashlight instantly when I need it. I activate that all the time.