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uBlock Origin blocked 34 requests/elements on that page alone. Requests to Amazon, Google, Oracle. Tracking pixels, segment tracking, Ad displays, cookie notifi
by move-on-by 6y ago
uBlock Origin blocked 34 requests/elements on that page alone. Requests to Amazon, Google, Oracle. Tracking pixels, segment tracking, Ad displays, cookie notifications, you name it. This is all on a computer web browser where data collection is somewhat limited when compared to a mobile app.
- microcolonel 6y agoAfter scrolling to the bottom and back up, Brave blocked 69 (nice) “ads and other creepy things”, on the phone. I honestly barely go to sites like this anymore. Big media is just gross. The quality is dirt-poor, the business models are abusive, and as the Facebook era draws to a close and the money dries up, the production value is trash too. Ars is good in this category, but still bleh.
- rchaud 6y agoIf this was 30 years ago, Ars would have been a print magazine you'd have to pay maybe $4.99 for. And they'd still struggle. Magazines with ads and subscription-based models went out of business all the time. The ones that survived either appealed to the widest possible demographic, or had a deep-pocketed benefactor keeping them alive.
- aschatten 6y agoI disagree that the quality is dirt-poor. I can still find a decent amount of good articles on Ars Technica, but they also have a lot of noise dedicated to generating clicks and likes. The article posted above is a good example.