They pop-up as you’re reading and cover the actual text. Pressing the ‘x’ doesn’t do anything so I literally can’t figure out how to get it to go away. Sometime it goes away if I keep scrolling but then it comes back if I scroll back up to try to actually read the text.
by well-okay
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Agreed! I hate loathe and despise that ad type. I mean I hate pop up ads to begin with that those are among the worst!
Omg I was running out of patience too, it’s really the worst type of web ads. I have a few webpages saved (by “printing” as PDF) for that reason…
my Adblock pro app really helps well with this issue. i used to have my browser crash all the time due to terrible ads on pages and now it’s a non-problem.
Consider using the Brave browser, it’s pretty good at removing the ads
If you add “cooked.wiki/” before the url it simplifies the page. Here’s an example:
https://cooked.wiki/www.seriouseats.com/the-best-chili-recipe
You need pihole
If you can use Firefox, install Ublock Origin and the Recipe Filter extension. Ublock will block ads and Recipe Filter will get rid of wordy junk about the history of grandma’s favorite recipe etc. Recipe Filter will pop the recipe into a separate window cleaning up the junk and you can save it from there. I also use the Paprika app on all my Apple devices to download recipes straight into it. You can also install the Enhancer for YouTube extension for Firefox to get rid of those ads too.
I’m seriously considering returning to cook books because the ads are becoming too much
Getting the paprika app and it will scrape the ingredients and cooking method for you.
Even works with nyt and atk and stuff behind pay walls
I cannot imagine using a phone without AdGuard. I bought a multidevice lifetime subscription years ago and it may be the best money I ever spent on my phone. They run excellent sales a few times a year.
[https://adguard.com/en/adguard-ios/overview.html](https://adguard.com/en/adguard-ios/overview.html)
[https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html](https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html)
Here’s a tip that works on your home network, but it can work on any device using your home network: use a pi-hole, a Raspberry Pi (inexpensive computer) that can reroute ad requests to a black hole instead of the ad network (simplified explanation).
[This is the pi-hole project.](https://pi-hole.net/)
It uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W 2 ($15 MSRP with no case or other handy things).
I bought [this kit from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M1PS35R?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1) for $40. I still needed a keyboard that had a USB port for a mouse and a mouse. You could use a USB hub instead, and you’ll need a regular keyboard and mouse. If you use a wireless keyboard and mouse, you can plug its dongle into the adapter’s (part of the kit I linked) micro USB to USB adapter and use both at the same time.
I also had a 16 GB micro-SD card left alone long ago due to its small size. (The micro-SD card needs to be more than 8 GB.) This was the only part I needed long term that was not part of the kit.
Once this kit arrived, I installed the [Raspberry Pi imager.](https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/) I used a PC, but there is a version for Mac too. This used a USB adapter for my micro-SD card, that I already had. I think this process took about 8 minutes.
The imager software offered to configure the wifi on the R-Pi, but this didn’t work for me. I needed to connect the R-Pi to a TV with the HDMI adapter included in the kit (the R-Pi only has mini-HDMI, so you’ll need this adapter). This process wasn’t bad, and I configured the R-Pi to talk to my wifi network, set it to a static IP address, updated it, and ran a configuration script. The R-Pi OS is a Debian Linux variant, so if you have Ubuntu or other Linux experience, you should be fine.
**I’ll be frank. If any of the steps in the last paragraph sound scary, this might not be a project for you. You can still do it, but you’re probably best finding a 30-60 minute install guide or video that walks you through some steps that I’m glossing over.**
To run the script, I opened a terminal and ran this command:
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
This step is from their Github: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/#one-step-automated-install
This step warned me to have my R-Pi set to a static IP (setting this requires a restart of the R-Pi) and took a few minutes to run.
After this, I logged into my router and set its DNS to the same IP address as my new Raspberry Pi. My router had to restart to make this change.
#BOOM! NO MORE ADS ON MY NETWORK!
**Advantage:** any device running on my home network gets this adblocking, whether it’s a device that supports it or not. (Like the Reddit app’s built in browser.)
**Disadvantage:** Doesn’t work away from home. Doesn’t support sites that you would like to support if they offer no ad-free methods. I’ve bought two of Kenji’s books, and I’m happy to put more money to good sources, but you’re right that ads often break sites, especially mobile site. Work around this disadvantage as you see fit. I’m sure that Kenji doesn’t approve of ads breaking the seriouseats.com site.
I use the Paprika app for my recipe management. It’s amazing! It’s how I cook. Super easy to get any website’s recipe into the app.
Enshittification through advertising.