@@demivik5812I guess if streamers had an AD every minute on the dot that wouldn't be right either tho and people would be right to complain... there such a thing as "too many" ads. (and twitch has too many already anyways so nevermind... multiple 30 seconds ads in a row like for real?)
It's a bit disingenuous to say it's just a title, it's at least 2 paragraphs repeating information taken directly from TechCrunch while not adding any new information.
Honestly, sites like these are the main reason i have AdBlock. I don't mind youtube ads. But when i'm going to read some news or some article and the page layout is all over the place because of ads and i'm bothered by auto play ads, it pisses me off.
I love when news/article sites are like "you cant read our wonderful articles without subscribing or disabling adblock" and im like "alright i wont read cya"
Sometimes they still load the actual content underneath that message, and if you have a blocker like ublock (and assuming it hasn't removed it already), you can right-click it and block element. You just move the mouse around until the whole thing highlights, activate it, and boom, gone. Obviously, you're more limited if you are using your phone. In which case, you're probably back to your first option: "cya"
@@whatevr99 honestly i stopped playing most of the AAA i only play a couple a year now when i used to nearly buy everything now iam mostly buying indie
@@whatevr99no because indie developers are rising, all the popular things from 2020 have been indie games like stray, lethal company, cup head, stardew valley, cult of the lamb, Friday night funkin, among us and etc
Lightspeed briefs. It was always my opinion that Elon purchased Twitter so that he could use it as a gateway for people to get brain chipped with Neuralink; and I thought this was bad. However, after reviewing the Twitter userbase, it's possible they all have brain damage.
@@noonenowhere877 And well, to be fair, if you could control dreams, advertising would be the 2# priority for them. The 1# priority would be porn, like always.
@@NaudVanDalen UA-cam is slower on my, albeit 10 year old, gaming PC now than it was on my school laptop back in 2012. And with it being slower I specifically talk about navigation the site itself, videos work as well or better nowadays. So it's not just nostalgia, I remember there sometimes being problems with buffering back then, but the site was much snappier.
Most modern browsers have "Mute Tab" functionality. Right click the tab and in the drop down menu you should see the option. Now, I'll grant that any website you feel the need to do so is best avoided, but I just thought I'd point out the option.
Depending on your browser and version, there could be an option to turn off autoplay of sound on web media. They love to randomly remove shit though, so who knows.
Auto play ads without audio are actually very nearly illegal because the companies that pay for advertisements pay the newspaper companies for the readers to see the ad, and since most newspapers or even just regular websites would put it on the side without audio, there would be no actual advertising. I think a company got into a LOT of trouble for this a few years back
I went to this page and counted. 320 words of editorial. (finishes with the words "Apex process" Banner ad pops up before you even start (in my case for Macafee AV) covering the text Then there are.... (I counted every single one) 65 ad spots on the page. Some for their own stuff, some for other stuff. More than 1 ad for every 5 words. How Google's algorithm for SERP ranking hasn't put this site on page 25 - or lower - is beyond me. If a smaller site offered so little value for so much commercialisation they'd never get a sniff of page one ranking.
If you know the website, sure. But sometimes you're googling something, maybe some news, maybe some article, and you click on the result and the layout is all over the place because of the ads. There could be some good information there, but because the experience is so shitty I'd rather just keep looking elsewhere
I think you missed the point. It was a staple in the video game industry for ages. He’s commenting on how much it’s gone downhill. Let’s be a little more openminded
@@SnowJester Filter List on uBlock Origin. I added them on my filter list as well as any domain ending with mov or exe since Google started selling domains with those as security precautions. That way even if someone tries to troll me with a link to a Kotaku article, nothing will load. Can't count me as a click, can't have me watch their ads. Simple.
The best part, in my mind, was being linked a random Kotaku article recently, trying to read it using my browser's Reader mode (only displays text)... only to be shown a completely different article body.
@SynicGaming Well they do play video games, so you could probably check if you like recent games by just seeing them played on stream then if you like what you see? You buy it. If you don’t? You don’t.
@@noonenowhere877oh ok i gotcha. Yeah i love hololive Its just kotaku is so different from hololive i had no idea where you were going with it. I think youtube in general replaced websites as a medium for gaming content. Back in my day we had a hotline to call and subscribed to nintendo power lol.
adblock is nice, but sometimes it can be the difference between site functionality and not. With uMatrix, you can choose which scripts to allow and often get site to function correctly while still blocking ads. It can be a bit tedious at first enabling the scripts on each site, but once you have it figured out and lock the settings for each site and webpage, it's really nice. I've been able to read articles on paywall sites with it without a subscription lol. Only issue is quite often you have to enable a script, refresh, let more scripts load, enable those, refresh, etc for a bit for sites at first because most IT departments these days end up having people who justify their paycheck to their bosses by making the required scripts for their site as overly redundant as possible.
Won't ever happen. Simply too many people on the consumer side for advertisers to really combat the development of AdBlock. It's a service literally everyone that matters (corporate sell outs and companies do not matter at all) happily supports.
(Opens website. Is immediately assaulted by 6 video ads) (Ad starts to play music) (Another ad launches into a fully narrated product pitch) (Volume steadily rises to a cacophony of voices and bombastic music) "I don't understand why so many people visiting our site use an ad blocker..."
If I had to guess, I'd say they are lying about their site traffic to advertisers. I refuse to believe that enough people visit sites like this to warrant so much ads. Literally not a single person I've ever met has sent me an article regarding gaming news from Kotaku, not once.
Yes and no-- I work in SEO and it (sorta) depends on the type of ads. The bottom-of-the barrel web ads that are indicative of shitty, low-traffic websites are often native ads (the ones shown at 0:21 , "Doctors HATE this man!" type ads) which seem to be all across Kotaku. But they also seem to get larger banner ads from Google and stuff, which usually don't appear unless the website gets some genuine traffic. So honestly? I have no idea lmao. I refuse to believe they actually get decent site traffic at all @@shib5267
You know what's horrible? The function to disable auto-play being removed from mainline Chromium which ends up making every chromium based browsers also having that function removed. Firefox still has the function built in, like a real chad.
Well, there is the brain rot article. I don't know which one is better. The ads that will pay kotaku and make them stay up longer or reading a kotaku article
Even the illegal anime/manga streaming site which I use since 2015 and exists since 2007 has 10 time less ads than this. Holy shit... Kotaku looks like that random news websites which I always tell dad to not visit and press anything on it
@@Reverie_Blaze Usually they even allow you to have adblock on, most of the ones i've been on give a "this site is maintained using ads" notification which you can just close and do whatever you wanted to do anyway. They rarely force you to turn off the adblock.
Kotaku is the one autistic kid in class that say random words for no random reason other than the fact that they can. Ps: I got nothing against autistic kids.
Since everyone else is already addressing the stuff the video focused on, I just want to point out that the thumbnail and the headline from kotaku saying "sweet baby inc doesn't do what gamers think it does" is some ridiculous gaslighting and an obvious attempt at damage control.
This is why I prefer yt videos. No need to scroll through 19 pages of fluff and ads just to figure out where an item is located, and even then it's either not detailed enough or just wrong
Eh, Yt videos can be just as bad. 30s unskippable ad, the video has a 30 second "don't forget to like and subscribe. And now a word of our sponsors" and you can't hit Ctrl+F to search for a specific part of the video, so you don't know if they are actually answering what you're asking or if it's a similar but unrelated topic.
Five paragraphs out of six explains the concept or subject you already know about. E.g game title is bla bla and has sold x number of copies, when all you want is the info you don't get anyway in the last paragraph, despite the title suggesting it has the solution to your problem.
@@gandalf8216 But you can Ctrl+F for the keywords you were searching on google and skim the text to see if the paragraph is relevant. It's harder to do that on a YT video.
I know people frown on ads but as someone who works for a website... the ad revenue it makes is like $1400 and I get paid $500 a month since its just the site owner and me working on it, so these many ads make us happy 😂
I feel like the scene from Ready Player One, where the corporation talks about how much of the screen they can fill with ads before giving the user a seizure.
Remember back in the day when you are trying to download something and theres like 5 buttons all saying Download but only 1 of them is the real one and all the others gives your computer a virus? Thats like Kotaku except its 10x worse but theres no virus. You just lose your sanity.
Man I remember the days when I used to visit gamespot religiously but then came youtube and I never had to open a gaming site for news or guides again.
And websites wonder why we don't listen when they say "pwetty pwease turn off your ad bwocker for us..."
they need money to exist, right?
@@demivik5812 no, they got finances by ESG venture funds
@@demivik5812I guess if streamers had an AD every minute on the dot that wouldn't be right either tho and people would be right to complain... there such a thing as "too many" ads. (and twitch has too many already anyways so nevermind... multiple 30 seconds ads in a row like for real?)
yeah typically that popup comes up begging me to turn my ad blocker off. I just refuse and leave.
@@demivik5812 But you can clearly see its not about sustain anymore. Its all about greed now.
One paragraph with 10 pages of ads lmfao
Edit: shit not even, more like a title and 10 pages of ads....
The ads are trying to protect people from the garbage content lol
@@OldManInternetactually laughed irl; thanks for that 😂
It's a bit disingenuous to say it's just a title, it's at least 2 paragraphs repeating information taken directly from TechCrunch while not adding any new information.
@@MrStegben lol well yeah, they basically just repeat the title in different ways. no actual substantial information.
"Welcome to our diverse and inclusive website". By inclusive we mean, we include a lot of ads, and by diverse we mean we have a lot of different ones.
"How awful is Kotaku?"
Yes.
Don’t translate... भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु…….
@@fantaguyrealguess I will die then
Every website in the world is like this. Why is Kotaku getting singled out. I'm not defending Kotaku either. Ads suck
@@johnlinksyou win idiot of the internet for today
I had a stroke just watching the video, Xvideos have less advertisements lmao
Ad block putting in some work
Gonna be working so hard your browser will crash.
It doesn't even block the all though. There's still a couple that make their way through
Honestly, sites like these are the main reason i have AdBlock. I don't mind youtube ads. But when i'm going to read some news or some article and the page layout is all over the place because of ads and i'm bothered by auto play ads, it pisses me off.
Brave browser. Problem solved. No need for addons, no need for script blockers when your browser is always on top of it.
Like a bench holding up a fat chick
I love when news/article sites are like "you cant read our wonderful articles without subscribing or disabling adblock" and im like "alright i wont read cya"
Literally this, there's not a single website I can think of that deserves to have AdBlock taken off for it.
Scientific articles are free and I don't give a shit to pay for opinions of journalists on subjects they know nothing about.
But why should you not pay for a subscription? I know I like to get paid for my work. But I don't do shi**y work, though.
Sometimes they still load the actual content underneath that message, and if you have a blocker like ublock (and assuming it hasn't removed it already), you can right-click it and block element. You just move the mouse around until the whole thing highlights, activate it, and boom, gone. Obviously, you're more limited if you are using your phone. In which case, you're probably back to your first option: "cya"
@@Askoreik82 there isn't a single person in the world whose opinion is important enough to me to pay for it
-"You can support the content by turning off your ad blocker".
The content: "The growing toxic masculinity in video games"
Downloading 7 more adblockers right this nanosecond
😂😂
bro I wouldn't read kotaku if it paid me
Is it possible to block the content and just see the ads?
man, i can't even feel bad for people who still support their trashy, toxic contents
Kotaku wants the quality of videogames to be exactly like the quality of their articles.
Or their website for that matter.
Considering the state of AAA games, nowadays, they might just get their wish… ☹️
@@whatevr99 honestly i stopped playing most of the AAA i only play a couple a year now when i used to nearly buy everything
now iam mostly buying indie
@@whatevr99no because indie developers are rising, all the popular things from 2020 have been indie games like stray, lethal company, cup head, stardew valley, cult of the lamb, Friday night funkin, among us and etc
remember that bit in Futurama about them sending ads into your dreams?
If they can, they will.
I Fear the Future :(
At least in that Future you could probably deliberately send Advertising Agents nightmares in retaliation for their hubris.
Lightspeed briefs. It was always my opinion that Elon purchased Twitter so that he could use it as a gateway for people to get brain chipped with Neuralink; and I thought this was bad.
However, after reviewing the Twitter userbase, it's possible they all have brain damage.
@@noonenowhere877 Me on My way to make Them listen to the Blue Spheres Theme Music non stop in Their Brain Chips for the next 69 hours:
@@noonenowhere877
And well, to be fair, if you could control dreams, advertising would be the 2# priority for them.
The 1# priority would be porn, like always.
and thus a simple article page will use over 500MB of memory for a single tab
You're not even far off. One Kotaku tab is 440 MB on my laptop.
Webpages are unironically slower now than they were back in 2012...
@@ano_nym I'm still loading them fine on my 10 year old laptop somehow.
@@NaudVanDalen UA-cam is slower on my, albeit 10 year old, gaming PC now than it was on my school laptop back in 2012.
And with it being slower I specifically talk about navigation the site itself, videos work as well or better nowadays.
So it's not just nostalgia, I remember there sometimes being problems with buffering back then, but the site was much snappier.
@@NaudVanDalen That was not the point. It's about cluttering the site with ads, making a website more resource-hungry than ever.
The U.S. government officially recommends every single one of us use an adblocker to prevent clicking on computer viruses in disguise.
In that case the entirety of kotaku shouldn't even appear to me lol
Thank you fed…
@@victorochoa3662 alright don't use an adblocker then, youtube shill lol
A broken clock is right twice a day
Common sense requires you to do so aswel, but you guys killed it such a long time ago..
Stop clicking on their site. Everyone. Put it on a block list.
i didnt even know it existed till now xD
This lol. I have been telling everyone to do that since like 2015-2016.
First time I heard about Kotaku was in 2017 becuase of some woke shit and this is second time xD
I haven't gone to that site once in the last 10 years. And I used to.
No. Use ad blockers and go to their site. Literally make them lose money every time you read anything.
-Sun Shu or someone
Auto-playing audio when it's not expected should be a war crime.
Most modern browsers have "Mute Tab" functionality. Right click the tab and in the drop down menu you should see the option.
Now, I'll grant that any website you feel the need to do so is best avoided, but I just thought I'd point out the option.
I found that out the hard way once...once.
Autoplay ads, or at least autoplay with audio should be illegal holy shit. That is my #1 pet peeve.
That shit is so annoying.
dont forget the random ass auto redirect to the ad site.
Depending on your browser and version, there could be an option to turn off autoplay of sound on web media. They love to randomly remove shit though, so who knows.
It's why I got an adblocker in the first place in ages past.
Auto play ads without audio are actually very nearly illegal because the companies that pay for advertisements pay the newspaper companies for the readers to see the ad, and since most newspapers or even just regular websites would put it on the side without audio, there would be no actual advertising. I think a company got into a LOT of trouble for this a few years back
The ads are protecting you from the website!
Good guy ads!
To be fair adblocker is the greatest invention since the infestation of ads
been using it since like 2012 lol.
The advertisers are just trying to save you from actually reading a kotaku article
I went to this page and counted.
320 words of editorial. (finishes with the words "Apex process"
Banner ad pops up before you even start (in my case for Macafee AV) covering the text
Then there are.... (I counted every single one)
65 ad spots on the page. Some for their own stuff, some for other stuff.
More than 1 ad for every 5 words.
How Google's algorithm for SERP ranking hasn't put this site on page 25 - or lower - is beyond me.
If a smaller site offered so little value for so much commercialisation they'd never get a sniff of page one ranking.
you mean ol' -don't- be evil Google "failed" for some rea$on? surely not!
it's simple...just don't go on the website
Except when it's the first search result on Google and you accidentally clicked on it.
If you know the website, sure. But sometimes you're googling something, maybe some news, maybe some article, and you click on the result and the layout is all over the place because of the ads. There could be some good information there, but because the experience is so shitty I'd rather just keep looking elsewhere
I think you missed the point. It was a staple in the video game industry for ages. He’s commenting on how much it’s gone downhill.
Let’s be a little more openminded
@@SnowJester Filter List on uBlock Origin. I added them on my filter list as well as any domain ending with mov or exe since Google started selling domains with those as security precautions. That way even if someone tries to troll me with a link to a Kotaku article, nothing will load. Can't count me as a click, can't have me watch their ads. Simple.
🕵♂found a kotaku activist
Kotaku: Bomb them with ads.
Also Kotaku: why does no one like our site?
The ads are not the reason I hate Kotaku. I hate them because they hate gamers.
@@MarkDeSade100 I hate them because they're communists
Gamers : Kotaku is awful!
Kotaku : Hold our beer, we can be even worse!
Ad blocker: I'm tired boss...
The best part, in my mind, was being linked a random Kotaku article recently, trying to read it using my browser's Reader mode (only displays text)... only to be shown a completely different article body.
I've been Kotaku clean since around 2018, thank you Hololive
Wait how did hololive help?
@SynicGaming Well they do play video games, so you could probably check if you like recent games by just seeing them played on stream then if you like what you see? You buy it. If you don’t? You don’t.
@@noonenowhere877oh ok i gotcha. Yeah i love hololive Its just kotaku is so different from hololive i had no idea where you were going with it. I think youtube in general replaced websites as a medium for gaming content. Back in my day we had a hotline to call and subscribed to nintendo power lol.
Not only Kotaku, stopped playing gacha after falling down the rabbit hole. Hololive has saved me thousands.
Holo is for creeps.
That just looks like an average scam website that asks you to install antivirus because your computer is infected with some crazy ass virus 😅
One of the reasons why people don't go there is ads, and they remedy the lost revenue by adding more ads.
So, is like vicious cicle. Its oroboros themself.
Browsing the web without adblock is literally impossible nowadays.
adblock is nice, but sometimes it can be the difference between site functionality and not. With uMatrix, you can choose which scripts to allow and often get site to function correctly while still blocking ads. It can be a bit tedious at first enabling the scripts on each site, but once you have it figured out and lock the settings for each site and webpage, it's really nice. I've been able to read articles on paywall sites with it without a subscription lol. Only issue is quite often you have to enable a script, refresh, let more scripts load, enable those, refresh, etc for a bit for sites at first because most IT departments these days end up having people who justify their paycheck to their bosses by making the required scripts for their site as overly redundant as possible.
The day Ad blocks stop working for good is the day I start living in the woods.
Won't ever happen. Simply too many people on the consumer side for advertisers to really combat the development of AdBlock. It's a service literally everyone that matters (corporate sell outs and companies do not matter at all) happily supports.
@@smithynoir9980new manifest v3 that chrome will use will unalive adblocks. Enjoy your google trojan people somehow call browser.
You have a moral obligation to install an adblocker on your parents computer.
Its like a rotting corpse that doesn't know yet it's been long dead.
Tbf the ads has more valueable information in them compared to whatever Kotaku has to offer as news.
Newspaper has "ads corner", or in some cases "had". Kotaku might be the modern day equivalent of those "ads corner".
Him freaking out while the shitty generic corpo music blasts in the background is fucking killing me.
My man had to speak louder to block out the ad 😂😂
Tbf the adverts are more reliable than kotaku's journalism.
The internet is unusable without an ad block.
It’s just ad website and the text is a bonus
(Opens website. Is immediately assaulted by 6 video ads)
(Ad starts to play music)
(Another ad launches into a fully narrated product pitch)
(Volume steadily rises to a cacophony of voices and bombastic music)
"I don't understand why so many people visiting our site use an ad blocker..."
If I had to guess, I'd say they are lying about their site traffic to advertisers. I refuse to believe that enough people visit sites like this to warrant so much ads. Literally not a single person I've ever met has sent me an article regarding gaming news from Kotaku, not once.
Isn't it the opposite? That's why they have so many ads
Yes and no-- I work in SEO and it (sorta) depends on the type of ads. The bottom-of-the barrel web ads that are indicative of shitty, low-traffic websites are often native ads (the ones shown at 0:21 , "Doctors HATE this man!" type ads) which seem to be all across Kotaku. But they also seem to get larger banner ads from Google and stuff, which usually don't appear unless the website gets some genuine traffic. So honestly? I have no idea lmao. I refuse to believe they actually get decent site traffic at all @@shib5267
Asmon just doubled kotaku's ad revenue by himself.
The internet is unusable without blockers.
This; I get PTSD going on browsers without it now.
Ads are literally a waste of internet bandwidth.
Btw who even goes to Kotatu anyways?😂
When you have an ad-block, Kotaku is just a blank page.
You know what's horrible? The function to disable auto-play being removed from mainline Chromium which ends up making every chromium based browsers also having that function removed. Firefox still has the function built in, like a real chad.
peering into the depths of the advertisement you see a reflection of another advertisement.
This shows how desperate Kotaku is to make any bit of money. Kotaku chose to live under life support rather than die with almost no dignity.
G4TV.
I bet if you had an ad-blocker kotaku would be nothing but blank pages.
Well, there is the brain rot article.
I don't know which one is better. The ads that will pay kotaku and make them stay up longer or reading a kotaku article
Even the illegal anime/manga streaming site which I use since 2015 and exists since 2007 has 10 time less ads than this. Holy shit...
Kotaku looks like that random news websites which I always tell dad to not visit and press anything on it
The ads are the best thing about Kotaku, the articles are much worse.
@@Reverie_Blaze Usually they even allow you to have adblock on, most of the ones i've been on give a "this site is maintained using ads" notification which you can just close and do whatever you wanted to do anyway. They rarely force you to turn off the adblock.
Crappy illegal pirate/crack sites has fewer ads, TODAY.
I watch so few ads, sometimes Mighty blocker misses one and i feel nostalgic..
Kotaku is the one autistic kid in class that say random words for no random reason other than the fact that they can.
Ps: I got nothing against autistic kids.
pterodactyl
@@iCommentBelow No Jacob this is a toaster, say it after me T O A S T E R
@@berb4413 ethiopia
Hey don't insult autistic people like that. Unlike Kotaku, people still care about them.
the autistic kid can at least be funny, kotaku doesnt even clear that bar
my adblocker told me today it has blocked over 100,000 ads. I 100,000% believe it.
Since everyone else is already addressing the stuff the video focused on, I just want to point out that the thumbnail and the headline from kotaku saying "sweet baby inc doesn't do what gamers think it does" is some ridiculous gaslighting and an obvious attempt at damage control.
Kotaku has never put out an article worth reading.
Gotta fund those hate campaigns somehow
I'll stop using an adblocker once it ceases to be as essential as pants.
In this episode of “Capitalist Doesn’t Understand Capitalism”
*Corporatism
Oups, I think there's a paragraph in my ad showcase
This is why I prefer yt videos. No need to scroll through 19 pages of fluff and ads just to figure out where an item is located, and even then it's either not detailed enough or just wrong
Eh, Yt videos can be just as bad. 30s unskippable ad, the video has a 30 second "don't forget to like and subscribe. And now a word of our sponsors" and you can't hit Ctrl+F to search for a specific part of the video, so you don't know if they are actually answering what you're asking or if it's a similar but unrelated topic.
Five paragraphs out of six explains the concept or subject you already know about. E.g game title is bla bla and has sold x number of copies, when all you want is the info you don't get anyway in the last paragraph, despite the title suggesting it has the solution to your problem.
@@gandalf8216 But you can Ctrl+F for the keywords you were searching on google and skim the text to see if the paragraph is relevant. It's harder to do that on a YT video.
basically this is the perfect case for why ad blockers are neccesary
pro tip: right click on chrome tab -> mute whole site
Another pro tip, don't use chrome
Another pro tip, don't read any articles from kotaku
That's most news media sites, hell half the internet is like that these days. That's just one of the many reasons why adblock is mandatory.
The music from the ad autoplaying while Asmon screaming "WHAAAAT IS HAAAAAPPENIIIING TO MEEEE?" Just completed my whole life.
SOUTH PARK :That's an ad, that's news, ad, ad, ad, another ad, news oh wait that's an ad mb, ad, ad, ad.
think of it this way, the ads are probably better content than anything in a kotaku article
Yeah..
But if you watch the ads then kotaku will get money.
Best choice is just not to go to kotaku
Tbf nearly all media websites nowadays are so full of ads that they would have been considered sketchy in the 00s.
This is the Internet we made.
I know people frown on ads but as someone who works for a website... the ad revenue it makes is like $1400 and I get paid $500 a month since its just the site owner and me working on it, so these many ads make us happy 😂
Have not heard anything good from Kotaku in a very long time.
Bless the ads for keeping asmon from reading the kotaku brain rotting articles
Even the adblocker is going "dude, wtf".
You have to run a pihole and an ad blocker just to be able to go to Kotaku.
I installed a pihole on my parents' house and their monthly data usage got cut for almost by half.
Pi holes are amazing I would suggest them for everyone.
Saying Kotaku is bad is like saying Bad bad.
It's so nice for that commercial website to give a small space for the bloggers from Kotaku to feature their social media rants.
That much ads? Even some pirate website doesn't have that much ads.
This makes me want to donate to the adblock devs.
And they wonder why adblocker is the first thing to install on a new pc?
The best is when its a simple announcement like a release date, but its buried ALL the way down the bottom of the page past all the ads
I feel like the scene from Ready Player One, where the corporation talks about how much of the screen they can fill with ads before giving the user a seizure.
There are more words in their ads than in their editorials.
I had less ads when I browse rule34 than kotaku
It was just missing the auto-install malware to have that "early 2000s" internet experience before adblock was a thing.
Kotaku with active ad blocker about:blank
Remember back in the day when you are trying to download something and theres like 5 buttons all saying Download but only 1 of them is the real one and all the others gives your computer a virus? Thats like Kotaku except its 10x worse but theres no virus. You just lose your sanity.
Adblock is the best counterspell invented in modern time.
I'mma keep my ad blockers tyvm
So their solution to Ad blockers is to just keep adding more Ads until you install one.
And this is BEFORE a script reloads your browser so that all these ads get reloaded and any article your in gets counted as another “click”
It's even better when the page is supposed to be a countdown or a slideshow, and instead of showing you the slideshow, it shows you 3 ads.
Man I remember the days when I used to visit gamespot religiously but then came youtube and I never had to open a gaming site for news or guides again.
I've seen things floating in septic tanks more likeable and with more dignity than any Kotaku worker.
Best part is when they won’t let you read. Asking for your email like they aren’t gonna sell it.
I fully believe you can tell exactly how well a company is doing by the amount of bullshit ads on their site.
The internet is just straight up unusable without adblocker
"stop rotting my brain" one of the users in the chat, so true
ublock working overtime when you open a news website
The music playing while he’s yelling is hilarious
I saw a bit of whitespace where another ad could have gone.
That's why I just switch read mode immediately when going to news site like this.
I mean, sure you can always scroll away from the ad, but then you might be in danger of inadvertently reading the article. Well played, Kotaku!
I put on adblocker and there was like 3 articles with enough space between them to illustrate the space within atoms
There were more ads than words on that page.