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Yep, browsing habits include: On medium.com or affiliated site: 40% chance of BS. Blank page with JS disabled: Built by people who would love 5 GB web pages;
by l0b0 8y ago
Yep, browsing habits include:
On medium.com or affiliated site: 40% chance of BS.
Blank page with JS disabled: Built by people who would love 5 GB web pages; 80% chance of BS.
"Please disable your ad blocker": Only people who love ads are real people; 90% chance of BS.
"You seem to be offline." Built by idiots; 100% chance of BS.
- slater 8y ago"Re-enable tracking" 100% chance of ... CBS! :D ducks rotten veg
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoLet's not forget: Loads almost 500k in 0.75 seconds, CSS looks a decade old, uses no obvious JS: 95% likely to be exactly the content I want with none of that nonsense because it was written by a domain expert for fun, not ad revenue.
- gordaco 8y agoAlso, enabling Firefox's reader mode (accessed quickly by pressing F9, at least in Windows) gets rid of the "please disable your ad blocker" and similar nagware most of the time.