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.