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As usual, the Techcrunch website is cancer and redirects via "advertising.com" which means uBlock Origin users can't see it. Happily, you can read the article

As usual, the Techcrunch website is cancer and redirects via "advertising.com" which means uBlock Origin users can't see it. Happily, you can read the article (without ads) via https://www.printfriendly.com https://www.printfriendly.com

dave5104 5y ago
I have uBlock Origin installed, and can seem to read the article just fine. Nothing from advertising.com is popping up in the asset list.
- wackget 5y ago
  You're right; it was uMatrix. Still crap though.
proxygeek 5y ago
I think u block origin displays the blocked urls without the intermediary like advertising.com which you can copy and paste directly in the browser
llacb47 5y ago
Just temporarily disable strict blocking for advertising.com.
KingOfCoders 5y ago
Why do people today use "cancer"? Isn't that offending to people with cancer?
- ywain 5y ago
  I am fairly sure that people with cancer would agree that cancer sucks.
- tux1968 5y ago
  I suspect people with cancer have bigger and more real-life issues to worry about than other people's word choices.
  - KingOfCoders 5y ago
    So you say because they have cancer they do not care about anything else? No loved ones?
    - tux1968 5y ago
      No, I say that facing such a serious life-threatening situation puts things in perspective and you stop worrying about things that don't really matter.
      - KingOfCoders 5y ago
        Thanks, then it looks like these people are different than I am, when others sloppily use my illness than I get angry. Will need to ask some cancer survivors amongst my friends.
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perihelions 5y ago
With default-deny { scripts, cookies, fonts }, this is genuinely one of the friendliest webpages I've read this week. I don't know whether this outcome was an intended graceful-degradation behavior, or just an accident, but it's perfect. All I get is (compressed, transferred network bytes): 68 kB of HTML, in two files; 63 kB of CSS, in one file; two webp images totaling 628 kB; and two small favicons (one of which downloads twice due to a misconfiguration, which wasted an extra 3.33 kB but whatever). It's exactly what I want from an internet news article: it's perfect! It loads instantly, and has a flawlessly readable, distraction-free formatting. It's like the apotheosis of newsprint, elevated to the shimmering silicon screen. I read there's an obnoxious javascript page redirect in one of the scripts. When you block 1st + 3rd party scripts both, most of that class of annoyance goes away. IMHO it's a very reasonable default for many sites. Thank you so very much, @gorhill (uMatrix / uBlock Origin). You've saved the internet in my eyes.

dave5104 5y ago

I have uBlock Origin installed, and can seem to read the article just fine. Nothing from advertising.com is popping up in the asset list.

wackget 5y ago
You're right; it was uMatrix. Still crap though.

proxygeek 5y ago

I think u block origin displays the blocked urls without the intermediary like advertising.com which you can copy and paste directly in the browser

llacb47 5y ago

Just temporarily disable strict blocking for advertising.com.

KingOfCoders 5y ago

Why do people today use "cancer"? Isn't that offending to people with cancer?

ywain 5y ago
I am fairly sure that people with cancer would agree that cancer sucks.
tux1968 5y ago
I suspect people with cancer have bigger and more real-life issues to worry about than other people's word choices.
- KingOfCoders 5y ago
  So you say because they have cancer they do not care about anything else? No loved ones?
  - tux1968 5y ago
    No, I say that facing such a serious life-threatening situation puts things in perspective and you stop worrying about things that don't really matter.
    - KingOfCoders 5y ago
      Thanks, then it looks like these people are different than I am, when others sloppily use my illness than I get angry. Will need to ask some cancer survivors amongst my friends.

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perihelions 5y ago

With default-deny { scripts, cookies, fonts }, this is genuinely one of the friendliest webpages I've read this week. I don't know whether this outcome was an intended graceful-degradation behavior, or just an accident, but it's perfect. All I get is (compressed, transferred network bytes): 68 kB of HTML, in two files; 63 kB of CSS, in one file; two webp images totaling 628 kB; and two small favicons (one of which downloads twice due to a misconfiguration, which wasted an extra 3.33 kB but whatever). It's exactly what I want from an internet news article: it's perfect! It loads instantly, and has a flawlessly readable, distraction-free formatting. It's like the apotheosis of newsprint, elevated to the shimmering silicon screen. I read there's an obnoxious javascript page redirect in one of the scripts. When you block 1st + 3rd party scripts both, most of that class of annoyance goes away. IMHO it's a very reasonable default for many sites. Thank you so very much, @gorhill (uMatrix / uBlock Origin). You've saved the internet in my eyes.