I’m not sure that lemmy users are different in this from user of Reddit/HackerNews/Facebook/etc.
It’s never been about reading the post/ articles. Mmm?!
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I 100% did this on Reddit. And I do it here too. Most news websites are garbage and loaded with advertisements. Get halfway through the story and a full page ad pops up or a video starts playing. Honestly, does anybody stop reading to watch those videos???
Or, you go into the comments and see the summary, or the full article, or quotes of the most important parts with discussions. If I feel I have questions, only then will I open the website.
You must be the last person on Lemmy still looking at these sites the way they’re displayed by default. Firefox, adblock, no script, pi hole, etc makes all that go away pretty painlessly.
I use an app on my phone that just loads the website in a browser within the app.
Android or iOS? There are solutions on both. Adblockers are available and have been for years.
There’s nothing stopping you from fixing this other than your own ignorance.
iOS. I use Firefox normally, but the app just loads the in app web browser, which I doesn’t seem to block ads. Not sure if safari extensions would work with the in app browser… might try it.
I read the TLDR bot at least…
Seems like that gives 90% of the relevant info, then I view the article if there’s anything missing.
Not that it makes a difference, my opinions are formed before I even read the title. I’m dug in, and I’ll never change 😎
I always read the top comment first, because often they have a better article or explain why the article is misleading
Yeah, I go top comment(s) to see if the article is not clickbait. Then I’ll read the summary to see if it’s any good. Then I’ll go to the article itself if those check out.
But what if that comment is instead downvoted to death because it goes against the community opinions?
Ssshhhh!
The real truth!
I generally do this because the articles are often behind paywalls.
I prefer to only read the top line of a meme then post. And no that’s not a Lemmy user, that’s squidward
Right!? Everyone but us is so stupid for talking about Lemmy (who ever that is) in here, while this is obviously squidward. Sheeple are so stupid!
The cellist?
I don’t want to read the thing. I want to discuss the thing that i didn’t read with other people who didn’t read the thing.
Did you read the thing? Because I didn’t and I don’t like your opinion on that topic!
Many articles are only accessible via a VPN, blocked either by my side or theirs. I’m too tired to switch it on and off. Summary bot is very helpful.
Same as it ever was
Once in a lifetiiiime
I read comments first mostly because a lot of posted articles are behind a paywall or i have to turn off my adblockers and maybe someone posted a tldr
Kinda understandable for articles from sites that pester you to disable adblocker or pay for a subscription (WSJ/Wired/Guardian type news sites etc).
Give me an archive link and I’ll click it every time. Otherwise, almost never.
I thought it was standard operating procedure on the Internet.
Comments > ads
Who here on Lemmy is still seeing ads?
I’m guessing mobile users who don’t pay for apps.
Why are people using the apps that have any ads? There are a million Lemmy apps out there at this point. Most are completely free and no ads
I think most of the in app browsers still load ads on remote sites. Aren’t most of them just based on Chrome?
Im sure the browsers and source webpages in the apps have ads. But my interpretation was that people are seeing ads on the Lemmy site itself in these free apps.
I hope that is not the case
We’re talking about reasons to comment on posts without reading the article, and the top level comment says it’s to avoid seeing ads.
It’s mostly Sync users. Some of them seriously pay 110$ for Sync Ultra lifetime lmao.
Many of them used the old sync for years and just wanted to to contribute for that reason.
I feel this is it but surely there are other apps following this model. I’m assuming they are probably the biggest but definitely not the only ones doing it. For good* ad-free software that is being actively developed and will get used probably every day for years, $100 seems more than fair to me. Beats paying a subscription indefinitely imo. I paid for the Plex lifetime pass for similar reasons and that was worth every penny.
*Good is subjective, just because you wouldn’t pay doesn’t mean others won’t.Edit: formatting
Well, we’ve got the very useful tldr. bot.
I remember seeing that bot make something longer once, super useful.
Why would I read a long, padded, ad-riddled article when I can get a quick and accurate TL;DR in the title and expert commentary in the comments?
I’ll do it again!
I tried to read the article but it was paywalled. Or it wanted me to turn off my ad blocker before I could read the article. Or it was a video. Or the source was something like
www.patriotusaeaglenews.ru.The first two can often be thwarted by turning off Javascript. And if it still doesn’t work, it probably wasn’t worth your time anyways.
