It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.

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nottorp 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well I run an ad blocker too, but maybe we should try browsing submitted URLs without blocking ads and only upvote them IF we can still read them like that.

	▲	everdrive 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I take a similar approach, but with noscript. If you cannot read it without enabling js, then I won't read the article.

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temp0826 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HN has many ad-apologists. It's more ironic than surprising that there's complaints.

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mnmalst 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Totally agree. Every time I see someone complaining about ads, I think "What ads?"

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a012 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Their adblock shamming overlay is also blocking part of the screen (on mobile) by the way

	▲	prmoustache 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't see that overlay on fennec + adblock, what are you using?
	▲	kachapopopow 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		brave seems to have some special sauce since it appears to be able to hide the fact that ads were removed. I am guessing they are doing so without triggering dom events.

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iAMkenough 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My browser automatically blocked something that's triggering an overlay to "Disable any DNS / Extension Based AdBlocker to Continue" with no option to dismiss.

So the people on Hackernews with adblock aren't reading this.

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PoisedProto 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was able to read it perfectly while using uBlock.

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lawn 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I did not get this on Firefox mobile using uBlock and JavaScript disabled.

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prmoustache 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

no overlay here on fennec + ublock.

Reader mode also available but not even needed.

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kachapopopow 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

interesting, on brave such popup never came up.

	▲	wafflemaker 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Brave is automatically using some list to disable "cookie banners". The kind of thing that you need to manually turn on in uBlock.