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On 01/08/2022 09:52, Tom via list wrote:
On 01/08/2022 09:28, George Parker wrote:But Chrome doesn't give you the choice. When reading a newspaper on line there is usually the first para then you have to click on it to see the full article. I want to go to the article, not stay on the teaser. My browsing is different to yours and choice is the thing.Chrome is designed with advertisers in mind, not the user. Places like the Time are deliberately trying to pollute adblockers by making a lot of their content look like advertising to adblockers in the hope you will give up using them. I'm coming across more and more sites that wont work with adblockers. So I dont bother. If The TImes dont give you add-free streams with a subscription I'd not use them myself.On 01/08/2022 09:22, Mike via list wrote:G'day,So that when you are browsing you can open links to read after you have read your current page. Real annoying to click a link and then have to go back to original page to carry on reading. When I am searching for some info, I open a whole load of pages to read in a minute, much faster! for me anyway.On 1/8/22 08:13, George Parker wrote:My problem with them is that when you open a link into a new tab, it does not switch to that tab. Why would you open in a new tab and not want to view it? In Firefox you can choose which it does but not in Chrome based browsers.Tom te tom te tom
I understand that newspapers and magazines get much more revenue from the advert stream than from the subscription price. Also if you want adverts not showing some sites may deliberately block Firefox or reduce the sped of loading or content resolution, due to its ability to control content.
Content creators have to be paid. Do YOU work for nothing?I allow adverts on sites I like so they get revenue (Ghostery is the easy on/off switch). In the end you have somehow to pay the content creator, but if you are a paying subscriber you need to engage with the terms of the subscription.
Remember for a newspaper, the adverts are "part of the paid for content", I would wish to see such as job adverts if I want to change jobs, music events if I went to them, etc.
As a local historian the old adverts tell us much about the conditions of the day. On the internet it is the same.
Even the heavy technical journals contain paid adverts. -- Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/