For me The only real appeal of tablets over laptops is it's easier to browse online manga readers in bed. I remember back in the day I would literally take my entire Dell Inspiron and would figure out the ideal position on my chest as I lounged in bed; occasionally I would even lie that huge thing on its side when I wanted to change positions. Tablets streamlined this process being small, lightweight, and the ideal proportions for a manga page, but I've been countering problems in the past year.
Apple and Apple fans tout that iPads cannot get adware or viruses, which I guess technically is true, but their adblocker is a piece of shit. When you literally can't view a website, you know something is wrong. Literally loading the page would pull up a pop-up page, which then immediately sends me to the app store. If I try to return to the page, it just does the shit again. At one point, I literally had to delete my entire history and cookies because I was caught in an infinite loop of moving me to the app store.
Admittedly some websites are better than others. Batoto, for example, doesn't have this problem at all, but it's nonprofit. Many online readers now are for-profit, so they're willing to pull in crazy advertisers who makes these sorts of annoying "features." Unfortunately they're the ones which usually have the largest libraries (they give monetary incentives for uploaders I think), so they're the only ones worth browsing. I don't mind advertising, but just not the ones that prevent me from doing what I wanted to go to the website for in the first place.
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