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Was anyone else completely blocked from reading that article because all the ads wedged the browser?
by vmarshall23 9y ago
Was anyone else completely blocked from reading that article because all the ads wedged the browser?
- crossman 9y agoYeah. I was interested but ended up closing it in under 5 seconds thanks to the ads.
- elliotec 9y agoTry whitelisting the site or disabling it for this session, there aren't any overt or annoying ads from what I can tell.
- nerdponx 9y agoThe page took about 10 seconds to load fully on an 8-core laptop with 32 GB of RAM, and continued firing off pixel-tracking requests and pings to scorecardresearch.com for about 80 seconds. All that for a short article which barely introduced the reader to an interesting topic. It was like a factoid crammed into five paragraphs in order to increase ad real estate.
- sethrin 9y agoI switched from using NoScript to a plugin called uMatrix. It's an improvement in many respects, and I believe it's available for both Firefox and Chrome.
- readams 9y agoFlawless with Firefox + uBlock Origin. I find that I am usually immune to whatever complaint that people have about unloadable articles on Hacker News.
- failrate 9y agoI've started reading everything I can through a proxy that removes everything except for the text and hyperlinks.
- ChrisGranger 9y agoIs this something you've set up yourself, or is there a service you can direct us toward?
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- failrate 9y agoI use textise.net I tried setting up my own, but it was quite a bit harder to manage everyone's broken SSL than I first assumed.
- SamBam 9y agoWorked fine with Chrome+uBlock origin, but I did wonder why smithsonianmagazine.com requested permission to send me notifications. Why would I ever want that from a webpage, except maybe my webmail or calendar?