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latimes won't let you read the article with an adblocker enabled

jobu 10y ago
And if you disable adblock the page becomes almost unreadable. Here's a site which appears to have basically the same info without the bullshit - https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementia-risk/ https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementi...
- mlinksva 10y ago
  Here's the paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622279/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622279/
- Teckla 10y ago
  Totally unreadable on my iPhone. Couldn't dismiss the ad to read the article.
stuckagain 10y ago
Worked fine in w3m. I wish people on this site would stop complaining that their crappy user agents don't work correctly.
- euyyn 10y ago
  I just curl web pages by hand!
  - NoGravitas 10y ago
    You use curl! Luxury! I use telnet.
    - throwaway2016a 10y ago
      Personally I use netcat
      - TeMPOraL 10y ago
        Kids these days. So lazy. I browse by having an LED hooked up to my Ethernet port and decoding TCP packets in my head.
kbutler 10y ago
uBlock origin, chrome, macOS works fine.
- e40 10y ago
  Same here, with uMatrix added, too. Rather pleasant experience, too. No autoplaying video (I would see that there was a video and I'd bet it would autoplay had I not had uMatrix).
mahyarm 10y ago
turning off javascript usually fixes it.
st3v3r 10y ago
They wish for compensation for their work. Without that compensation, you don't get to see their work. What's wrong with that?
- thaw13579 10y ago
  My issue is that even paid subscribers are served an unbearable amount of ads, e.g. videos in-line with the text of the article. I wrote their support to let them know that I'd gladly pay more on a higher tier to avoid ads, and this is their response: "Ad-blocker must be disabled to allow advertisements and to continue to continue to the webiste. Paying for our content is similar to paying for cable or buying a magazine. You pay for those services but they still have advertising. Advertisements help to keep the cost of digital subscriptions extremely low in relation to other newspapers."
pmoriarty 10y ago
I'm using privoxy, noscript, and request policy to block ads, and can read that article just fine.

jobu 10y ago

And if you disable adblock the page becomes almost unreadable. Here's a site which appears to have basically the same info without the bullshit - https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementia-risk/ https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementi...

mlinksva 10y ago
Here's the paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622279/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622279/
Teckla 10y ago
Totally unreadable on my iPhone. Couldn't dismiss the ad to read the article.

stuckagain 10y ago

Worked fine in w3m. I wish people on this site would stop complaining that their crappy user agents don't work correctly.

euyyn 10y ago
I just curl web pages by hand!
- NoGravitas 10y ago
  You use curl! Luxury! I use telnet.
  - throwaway2016a 10y ago
    Personally I use netcat
    - TeMPOraL 10y ago
      Kids these days. So lazy. I browse by having an LED hooked up to my Ethernet port and decoding TCP packets in my head.

kbutler 10y ago

uBlock origin, chrome, macOS works fine.

e40 10y ago
Same here, with uMatrix added, too. Rather pleasant experience, too. No autoplaying video (I would see that there was a video and I'd bet it would autoplay had I not had uMatrix).

mahyarm 10y ago

turning off javascript usually fixes it.

st3v3r 10y ago

They wish for compensation for their work. Without that compensation, you don't get to see their work. What's wrong with that?

thaw13579 10y ago
My issue is that even paid subscribers are served an unbearable amount of ads, e.g. videos in-line with the text of the article. I wrote their support to let them know that I'd gladly pay more on a higher tier to avoid ads, and this is their response: "Ad-blocker must be disabled to allow advertisements and to continue to continue to the webiste. Paying for our content is similar to paying for cable or buying a magazine. You pay for those services but they still have advertising. Advertisements help to keep the cost of digital subscriptions extremely low in relation to other newspapers."

pmoriarty 10y ago

I'm using privoxy, noscript, and request policy to block ads, and can read that article just fine.