Real senator, or wax figurine?

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    8 days ago

    It’s not that I couldn’t be bothered to click. It’s just that your text is just that. Just text. Sooooooo many of these news sites have formatting on their pages so when you scroll, it scrolls the text off the screen, and right into a full page ad that can’t be closed. You have to scroll more to get the rest of the text.

    Then other sites have so much popup bullshit, and redirections, and automatically playing videos.

    It’s a lot.

    So I appriciate your text recap. Not because I can’t be bothered to click a link, but because they can’t be bothered to display the story on a webpage that isn’t infuriating to have to deal with. Your text recap is just the story, no bullshit. And I appriciate that. Upvote for you!

    • ryper@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      8 days ago

      The link is from The Guardian, which doesn’t do all that. I only get a cookie prompt from them, and there’s no funny business after that.

      • M137@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        7 days ago

        That must be a location thing because most links to their website gives a “accept cookies or deny and subscribe (which means paying them).” The link for this post didn’t show anything, but I’ve learned to not click links to their website because of the above mentioned. And I use an adblocker which removes the cookie popup most of the time but the guardian is one of the websites where it rarely works.