As we turn to online news outlets so many now piss me off.

Outlets like the Daily Mail (always find one interesting tale) or the Independent with their infuriating video pop ups that seem to take forever to load and temporarily "freeze" your screen (my PC system is not that old) but there are numerous online only sites that are similar.

Why do they do this?

If I want to watch a frigging video I'd click on it.

Also the infuriating amount of bloody spam one now gets if one dares contact an entity online where they seem to think that gives them permission to flood you daily with all the other crap they may see.

I always contact them and tell them to piss right of as I have no permission to them to hound me just because I contacted them. Even government departments do it.

I feel my time is too precious to waste on "frozen" websites.

And don;t get me started on "updates" to programs or your operating system or Firefox etc that take over your system while you are in the middle of a task.

(Ist World Problem)

Get a decent ad blocker.

Yes all the news websites do it, you click on a story and the entire page is a great big mess of videos and ads. I think they do it to try and frustrate you in to purchasing a subscription. I haven't bought a newspaper for years and I won't be buying a digital one either. If they haven't yet worked out they would possibly get more subs if they cleaned up their websites they never will. But maybe they make more from ads etc. I don't know.

Green Man wrote:
Get a decent ad blocker.

Firefox does a god free ad blocker that blocks the infuriating Daily Mail adverts and YouTube often intrusive and aggravating adverts that can spoil viewing.

I don't mind adverts in general as publications need to make money but print or TV ads were never this tiresome before the internet.

Also YT and the Mail regularly update their ad-blocker, blocker so it's back to the drawing borad to wait for a clever person at Firefox to update their blockers.