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Thanks to premii, I was able to read the actual article, but fuck pcgamer. If you try to access the website with disabled javascript or while blocking ads, you
by Artemix 9y ago
Thanks to premii, I was able to read the actual article, but fuck pcgamer.
If you try to access the website with disabled javascript or while blocking ads, you'll be redirected to a HTML page that kinda only says "We know you are using a blocking script and want you to disable it".
- dkersten 9y agoMore and more sites are doing this, and more and more am I realising that I really don't care to read the articles enough to enable javascript/disable adblockers. A nice side benefit is that I'm consuming much less content that, really, I don't need. Most news articles for example don't affect my life other than, perhaps, depressing me. If its not actionable, I don't need to know. These sites are helping me (slowly) unravel my internet addiction. So really, I should be thanking them :)
- Artemix 9y agoThat's the positive side of it. The most negative ones would be: - Content blocking: you limit access to your news to a very precise subset of people, so implicitly easily targeting and closing users's views. - Heaviness: you limit access to your news to mainly desktop targets, as most mobile networks have very limited bandwidth usage. Also it have a positive impact on you, also me (as I decided to add it and all its subdomains to my blocklist) but a lot of users will keep living under those website's constraints, but also gaining the habit of that, thus starting to think about it as "normal" where it's really the Web and net neutrality cancer.
- RGamma 9y agoProtip: Use uMatrix with * * * block * * css allow * 1st-party image allow and get https://i.imgur.com/C7qyX4Y.png https://i.imgur.com/C7qyX4Y.png