Is surfing the web on a cell phone becoming an impossibility?
 

I spend time when out at a bar or on my porch smoking a cigar or waiting at a doctor's office surfing the web on my cell.

In the last 4-5 months it seems I can't even visit a single site or read one ****ing story that doesn't have a thousand pop ups for cookies, for contacting them via chat, for subscribing, for a coupon, ad after ad after ad either blocking the screen or story and intertwined between every God damn paragraph.

It's gotten to the point I don't even want to do anything on my phone except visit a couple of sites that I know aren't all ****ed up.

And the worst is Facebook. 1 million stories and ads to scroll through to find one post from someone you know. June 1st I am deactivating my FB account and will only check in once every six months to say hello to cousins and distant friends.

What the hell has happened to the internet??? :harumph:

GET OFF MY LAWN!

I don’t have this issue at all, but I also don’t really “surf” the web so much as cycle through a handful of regular sites like CP and Reddit.

Damn, Grandpa. Get yourself a flip phone.

Stop looking at porn on your phone.

Use the computers at the library for that.

Cell phone apps are just as bad. When I'm on my PC behind linux or even windows OS it's a very straightforward interaction. On the same businesses cell phone app it's a mess of trying to navigate through AI ads and customer service.

I'm >< close to going back to my Rugby flip phone, and buying a Android tablet for when I need access on the road.

I work from home 90% of the time since the pandemic and between phone apps and ads I just don't need the frustration.

Many of these companies make it as unpleasant as possible to use a web browser because they want you download their stupid apps instead. I prefer a web browser as well so I gravitate towards sites that don’t discourage me from doing so by intentionally sucking.

Ironically the porn sites have the LEAST amount of shit and no pop ups.

I have an LG K92 5G. It's fast and nice screen size.

Download Brave browser onto your phone and all your problems will be solved.

That's where I headed. No surfing just a few sites that I know are clean of all the shit.

Itcs not as bad on a laptop but I see some growing bullshit there too.

Fox News website is abysmal, the worst of the big media sites. I don't visit it anymore.

I'll give it a try. Thanks

I have a Samsung Note 20 Ultra 5G that is only 1.5 years old. In the past few months, Samsung has forced about 4-5 updates. I used to get onto CP and also Phog.net with nary a problem. But once they started doing these updates, my phone would sometimes lock up on these forums while scrolling up or down. I don't know what is the cause but it is really irritating. With the last update, it will freeze (not react to any input) but usually only for a few seconds and then it will allow me to scroll again. That's an improvement but still not back to normal.

Doesn't sound like a normal experience. I tried Fox News and got one "try the app" thing and then going into articles I see an Amazon ad every 2 or 3 paragraphs.

If yours is significantly worse than that, either your browser sucks and you need to use a new one, or you have some kind of pop-up malware or something (and the most thorough way to fix that would be a factory reset if you have an easy way to backup/restore numbers and stuff).

People still use Facebook?

I've stopped using it on my phone except to post updates/pics... same experience as scho, you might see one update from a friend and then 3 or 4 ads or suggested sites, etc. For a while I'd x each of them and then it seemed to clear up the next day, but only browse on desktop now (if at all).

It was nice way back when you could just set it to see all updates in chronological order... what a concept that was.

If I could go back in time and kill one person, Hitler would be safe because I would target the person who invented those stupid pop-ups that show up on every site now.

Seriously, does anyone EVER say, "Wow, that thing that interrupted what I was doing is really interesting. I think I'll sign up for that newsletter that it's touting."? I feel like most web sites annoy 99,999 people just so the 100,000th person who has dementia will accidentally follow the popup link. A popup could be giving away large amounts of money and I'll still not click it out of pure principle.

Our neighborhood Facebook group is good for some lulz while taking a shit in the mornings.

Mostly "think of the children!" Karen bullshit, but it can be good for recommendations for local services and tips, especially being new to the area. I just found someone to watch our pets there this morning so it does have some uses.

I mean, where else am I supposed to put pictures of my kiddos for family to see?

use a pop up blocker or ad blocker.


what browser are you using? Dolphin works fantastically for me.

There's porn on my phone?

My apple phone doesn't have this issue.

It's on an app that comes with all new phones now.

I hate Ethan Zuckerman more than I hate terrorists.

I tried NextDoor for a bit and damn, just a bunch of gossipy bullshit, Karens, shouting at clouds, "did anyone hear that bang/see that flash of light"...

My favorites are the out of nowhere headscrather requests like "Does anyone have a wetsuit my husband could borrow for the weekend? He's a bigger guy but not super huge if that helps. I can return it first thing on Monday"

*click on profile and see that husband is indeed super huge

I got removed from our neighborhood Facebook page for telling a Karen to shut the **** up when she posted how the kids screaming as they were fishing around the lake was causing her dog to bark.

I tried that site once thinking it might be a good place to see if there were neighborhood events or useful local info on there, and it was exactly this. That place will really make you lose faith in humanity.

Hey man... whatever your politics are, Facebook is the absolute worst place for you. Get completely off social media and watch your hatred for humanity decrease by about 900% in a week.

I had to get off NextDoor I was walking around my neighborhood recognizing some of the ****s screaming about how people made splashing noises in the community pool in front of their house.

Nothing has made me hate humanity more than NextDoor, not even youtube comments.

I'm a complete Karen when it comes to dogs barking nonstop outside, not because I hate dogs, but because I ****ing hate asshole dog owners who leave their dogs outside to bark for hours at a time.

That's basically my line though... not going to shame freakin' kids for having a good time outside.

You go to the library to throw yogurt?

There's a few lists that'll put you on...

I finally had to bail on mine. As you might imagine, Naperville has more than it's far share of Karens. Eventually I just couldn't take it anymore.

Nextdoor is a great concept other than the people.

I was really interested when it first started, because I thought it would be great for learning about neighborhood events and happenings, and maybe even ID'ing some new friends in the neighborhood. The interest groups seemed promising, and I joined a couple (board games and football history).

For the most part, it's a disaster that lowers my opinion of humanity. And the interest groups have never produced any fruit at all.

However, it's good enough at a few things that I keep it. It's good for selling stuff. When I redecorated my home office I was able to quickly sell my old items. And Nextdoor was a godsend when the French bicyclist hit me, because I put the description out and he was ID'ed immediately, which let me recover a lot of costs.

Ha I was engaged to a girl from Downers Grove and boy you ain't kiddin




I live in the Valley in LA and Nextdoor was wild during the pandemic when neighborhoods were just pushing the same homeless people around to some other neighborhood and they were all screaming at each other for it. It was the most NIMBY in action thing I'd ever seen.

That is the worst app ever created....OMG my ring doorbell caught someone walking by on the sidewalk I've never seen before, watch for robberies!

lmao yeah there was this trend before I deleted it where people were taking pictures of people walking outside and posting it on nextdoor because they looked suspicious and fifteen busybody bitches immediately would say thanks susan you're doing to Lord's work. Scary! What an awful thing society has become.

And I'd be like that guy walking by your house with a hat on? omg alert the authorities.

I'm getting mad just thinking about it.

Use the reader option if you have an iPhone. Cuts down on a lot of that.

Are you talking about FB or are you referring to Nextdoor?

He keep watching that Guy Ritchie movie thinking Brad Pitt would show up eventually. Understanding why he couldn't be understood in the previews

I guess there's options to make the phone experience better?

But I've found the desktop experience to be nicer and easier to navigate and much prefer the larger screen size.

Working from home and not getting out as much as I used to, I don't really spend much time surfing on my phone.

The phone is only text and short emails, GPS maps.

For couch surfing I picked up a Surface just so I could have a tablet that was treated by web sites as a desktop and not a mobile. The Surface doesn't have Cellular but I'll sometimes Hotspot the phone to use the tablet on the go. Or I'll surf a limited number of sites on my phone if I'm waiting for a dentist appointment or something.


I've been happy with the Surface as a desktop tablet.

HEY MOTHER****ER

The Burrito lady in my town puts her specials on Facebook.

Other than that...no ROFL

Sounds right.

Just remember kids, not all websites are like CP.

At least you didn't tell her to die in an AIDS fire.

Its a private FB page created for our community but is pretty much the same content as you would get using Nextdoor

There's several other frightening variations as well

There's one specifically for moms

There's one that's "Uncensored" which is basically our neighborhoods version of CP DC

There's one specific for buying, selling, and trading

And a few others specialty ones (wine, cocktail, BBQ groups, etc)

I have all Apple devices running native Safari with Ad Block Pro extension.

I have pretty much zero problems surfing the web from my phone.

This. At least for my phone. Only apple product I own. But yeah, no problems with popups in years. Every few months maybe 1-2 sites will blow me up, but 99% of the time, no issues.

Never had I prob iono

Autocorrect get you?

Is there a "trading - moms uncensored" page? That one might be worth checking out.

Stars on home exteriors have to go through an HOA approval process so I should probably see about getting myself on that committee

The problem is that pop-up ads are just an idea. If you killed poor Ethan before he thought of it, someone else would eventually have the same idea. You're going to need a more drastic solution.

You have drinks on me if you show up on the 3rd for our meetup.

Downloaded and installed Brave a it's great. :clap:

I use it to talk with Chief fans from all over the world. Do Arrowhead Kingdom and Arrowhead South tasks. Without Facebook as the connection to each other, we don’t exist as an org.

Let's assume that I can use the time machine more than once.

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