Sometimes when I’m trying to read a webpage in safari, VoiceOver will continuously be interrupted by ads. Specifically, voiceover will keep saying something like, “this ad will end in five seconds, four seconds,” and so on, interrupting whatever I was trying to read each time. surprisingly, this happens even when I’m in reading mode which I thought blocked out all the extraneous page content and just showed you the text. Below is a link to a webpage exhibiting this behavior if you want an example of what I’m referring to. While annoying, I believe the link is safe. Does anyone else run into this and have you found a solution?
https://applianceanalysts.com/air-conditioner-running-too-long/
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Yep
Yep it’s super frustrating.
Thank you for the suggestions!
Thank you for those suggestions. I will definitely give that a shot next time. Another consequence related to this is Safari often starts slowing down to a crawl, to the point where sometimes I can’t even use my phone and my phone gets physically warm to the touch. When this happens, once I’m able to actually do anything again, I have to close Safari in the app switcher. Very annoying
add blocker
Try giving a add blocker, that should help with a lot of the problems.
I 2nd an adblocker
Hello,
First off, I feel your pain. Ads and VoiceOver simply DO NOT play nice with each other. While you are right, reader view strips the ads out, it can't get every thing. The only way you'll get 90-95% of the ads to leave you alone at least for me, is an adblocker. When I installed one, my Safari browsing experience improved dramatically! I recommend Adguard Pro. You get extensive ad blocking not just on Safari, but, on other browsers as well, along with other apps. Plus, it can step trackers from tracking you, and block other annoyances on web sites like social buttons or links. This app costs $10, but, it's worth every penny, and it will more than pay for itself. It's fully accessible and Thomas even did a podcast on it. Which is what finally convinced me to bite the bullet and spend the $10. Also, you can do different DNS servers such as family shield for instance. Adguard Pro works by creating a VPN or virtual private network profile on your device. So, it may slow things down, although I haven't noticed anything.
But, you can customize it too, every thing from different filtering services to use, to what gets blocked and what doesn't.
I suggest you listen to the podcast demo of this app and giving it a try. I think you'll be very happy with the results. I know I was and still am!
Now if only I could get rid of those annoying video players that can appear in the middle of a web page whether it'd be a news article or a tutorial. Plus, I'd like to get rid of the social media posts in the middle of articles too. You know that ones that get put in the news article often right in the middle of it.
I hope this helps, and good luck!