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Looks like Indian newspapers are ganging up on their readers to force then to turn off adblockers. Goodbye, TimesOfIndia and HindustanTimes! https://news.ycomb
by msravi 10y ago
Looks like Indian newspapers are ganging up on their readers to force then to turn off adblockers. Goodbye, TimesOfIndia and HindustanTimes!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007472
Clicking on an article in timesofindia takes you to this:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blocked.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blocked.cms
- corobo 10y agoHow do they manage that? I imagine they'd use JS to check if the ad loaded maybe, can it be beat by just disabling JS entirely for that site?
- msravi 10y agoYes, it can. In uMatrix: hindustantimes.com www.hindustantimes.com script block indiatimes.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com script block lets you get past the blocker.