laptop screen

Is it me or are laptops getting more and more adverts thus cutting the screen size down. My screen is approx 13.5 inches wide and 8 inch high. On ME this is cut down to9x8 inch because the rest is took up by adverts and now pop ups on the right and adverts coming across the top or in the story line. I use Google with Ad blocker but again the screen size is still reduced in width by about 4 inch which is just blank screen. Does it get any better if you have a bigger screen or is the same amount of % screen taken up by adverts

I think it is probably more to do with your browser and the settings which are selected, rather than to do with the laptop per se.

Sometimes, I do use a laptop, and the appearance of the screen is almost identical to the large screen that I use with desktop PC. (Very slight difference as laptop's toolbar has icons to do with battery and coms, which are not relevant to desktop.)

Don't use ME, so cannot comment on that Browser.

Google are really chasing advertising revenue at present, so is likely users will notice ads more.

'Firefox' is very popular and allegedly is not harvesting you data to feed to advertisers.

Your description though sounds like the ads are part of the content of the web sites you are visiting. You could try an Ad Blocker browser extension, but some sites rely on the ads to fund them, and not all will function fully if you block their ads.

Ena I use ME mainly for the news with all the adverts I use Google for everything else with Ad Blocker Extension

Firefox browser.

Duckduckgo search engine.

Works for me.

^^^^ That is what most of the techie sites recommend.

Peter, I do not use Edge, but I did see that this ad blocker is being particularly advertised to Edge users.

Ena if I put an ad blocker on ME then some sites will block access to that site

Don't use ME then is my advice

LL cannot get the news on Google because I have an ad blocker on it Not tech savvy so not playing around with Firefox I will stick to what I know and put up with the reduced screen width

No need to be tech savvy Peter
Just download Firefox and use it instead of ME.

LL tried Firefox with Duckduckgo and when I entered the Daily Mail the adverts still came on the screen and WW was the same width has when I use Google. I must have to tick/untick something in settings but do not know what.

Peter
Click on the icon that looks like a jigsaw piece (top right hand of firefox browser) then click on extensions and enable duckduckgo privacy essentials and enable it.

LL will try later thanks