I started to notice that more sites are turning into paywalls, and I don’t like that and would prefer ads over subscriptions.

I am curious, what does the general community think about that?

  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
    19·
    10 hours ago

    I wound not mind ads if they met the following conditions (in no particular order).

    • Actually vet them, no scams and viruses.
    • minimal obstruction to what I’m there for. A bildboard on the side of the highway is fine, but when they put in the road, there’s a problem.
    • Mix it up. YouTube playing the same ad 500 times in a row is obnoxious.
    • No yelling/loud shit. Play your ad, don’t blow out my speakers.
    • If on a silent website, video ads must be auto muted.
    • if I’m on data or a metered network, don’t auto play ads and keep the total data usage to a minimum.
    • Medical and health ads aren’t allowed. You can have PSAs about conditions and that there are treatment options, but it should your doctor researching and recommending specific medicine not a patient going in with some ad.
    • subignition@fedia.io
      10·
      11 hours ago

      Globally disabling autoplay in my browser brought me so much sanity. It’s worth the small fraction of sites that behave badly because of it