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I see so many comments which boil down to "either buy a subscription or be willing to have ads shown". But here's the reality. Even if you pay for a subscriptio
by intrasight 10y ago
I see so many comments which boil down to "either buy a subscription or be willing to have ads shown". But here's the reality. Even if you pay for a subscription, you still see ads. And worse, you still have code from 3rd parties, whom you didn't invite, running on your computer.
I bet if you took a survey of the HN community, the majority would say they have no problem with 1st-party ads (how about simple inline images) of a quality commensurate with the quality of the publication.
- epmatsw 10y agoTo be real, any time you visit any site you're running 3rd party code you didn't invite. NPM modules, random scripts from CDNs or stored off in a /libs directory, hardly any sites are built entirely on code hosted or written by the party running that site. Ads get a bad rap, but if you're running JS on the modern web it's not even the biggest culprit.
- intrasight 10y agoTrue, but when I say "3rd party code" I was specifically referring to code coming from a 3rd party server and therefore not under the control of the 1st party. If the site I visit hosts the code then I trust it because I trust the 1st party (not saying that's necessarily a good idea, but it's my current philosophy). I have uBlock Origin set to block any 3rd party requests, so I do have to explicitly "invite" any such code/resources. And you can tell uBlock to remember those invites. This feature has made the web bearable again.