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How a Google side project evolved into a $4B company
- davidweatherall 7y agoFirst time coming across techcrunch's "extra crunch" paywall - It's a shame they give you half the article before mentioning it.
- mcintyre1994 7y agoI guess my AdBlocker blocked whatever they were trying to use to show the paywall, so the story just abruptly ended in the middle.
- toby- 7y agoSame. I use uBlock Origin, and the article just fades out in the centre... Seeing as the other comments mention this website hijacking the back button and other nasties, I don't think I'm going to whitelist this site in uBlock to test, even temporarily.
- mtmail 7y agoLast years book "Never Lost Again" is a good account of the Keyhole/Google Earth/Google Maps story. (https://www.amazon.com/-/dp/0062673041/ https://www.amazon.com/-/dp/0062673041/)
- amanzi 7y agoGot a few paragraphs in before finding out it's behind a paywall that's only accessible from a few countries.
- sidcool 7y agoPaywall alert. The article does not mention till very late that it's paywalled.
- fs2 7y agoWhat a horrible site, it tries to hijack the back button, full screen cookie warning and uBlock has over a dozen items blocked.
- the_duke 7y agoNot only that, the GDPR settings take what is seemingly an infinite amount of clicks to actually see the options, and then you can't even properly opt out. That was enough for me to skip this one.
- denzil_correa 7y agoIt's so bad that I have stopped reading TechCrunch articles. The options for GDPR consent are excruciatingly painful to choose and takes a large time to even get to the appropriate point.
- kolla 7y agoTechcrunch links should be banned imo..
- drcongo 7y agoYou are not alone.
- Kiro 7y agoWhy?
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoWell for one they hijack browser behavior. Their site is a train wreck of “me too” JavaScript development.
- nikolay 7y agoTechCrunch has never been a good source of tech news - even from its Michael Arrington's days. But now it's even worse.
- drcongo 7y agoInteresting side-note for anyone seeing a paywall, if you set Safari to only ever use reader mode on techcrunch URLs it appears to bypass that completely.