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It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking

It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.

mnmalst 11mo ago
Totally agree. Every time I see someone complaining about ads, I think "What ads?"
- a012 11mo ago
  Their adblock shamming overlay is also blocking part of the screen (on mobile) by the way
  - prmoustache 11mo ago
    Don't see that overlay on fennec + adblock, what are you using?
  - kachapopopow 11mo ago
    brave seems to have some special sauce since it appears to be able to hide the fact that ads were removed. I am guessing they are doing so without triggering dom events.
nottorp 11mo ago
Well I run an ad blocker too, but maybe we should try browsing submitted URLs without blocking ads and only upvote them IF we can still read them like that.
- everdrive 11mo ago
  I take a similar approach, but with noscript. If you cannot read it without enabling js, then I won't read the article.
iAMkenough 11mo ago
My browser automatically blocked something that's triggering an overlay to "Disable any DNS / Extension Based AdBlocker to Continue" with no option to dismiss. So the people on Hackernews with adblock aren't reading this.
- kachapopopow 11mo ago
  interesting, on brave such popup never came up.
  - wafflemaker 11mo ago
    Brave is automatically using some list to disable "cookie banners". The kind of thing that you need to manually turn on in uBlock.
- lawn 11mo ago
  I did not get this on Firefox mobile using uBlock and JavaScript disabled.
- _79px 11mo ago
  I was able to read it perfectly while using uBlock.
- prmoustache 11mo ago
  no overlay here on fennec + ublock. Reader mode also available but not even needed.
temp0826 11mo ago
HN has many ad-apologists. It's more ironic than surprising that there's complaints.
juliangmp 11mo ago
I use an app called harmonic to browse HN, if I open a link externally Firefox for android opens it with ublock installed. But the first glance of the article I get is with the default web view. And a lot of places have ads that are okay. I mean I still dislike them, but they don't block half the page as in this instance. And when I see that I won't even bother to open it in Firefox.

mnmalst 11mo ago

Totally agree. Every time I see someone complaining about ads, I think "What ads?"

a012 11mo ago
Their adblock shamming overlay is also blocking part of the screen (on mobile) by the way
- prmoustache 11mo ago
  Don't see that overlay on fennec + adblock, what are you using?
- kachapopopow 11mo ago
  brave seems to have some special sauce since it appears to be able to hide the fact that ads were removed. I am guessing they are doing so without triggering dom events.

nottorp 11mo ago

Well I run an ad blocker too, but maybe we should try browsing submitted URLs without blocking ads and only upvote them IF we can still read them like that.

everdrive 11mo ago
I take a similar approach, but with noscript. If you cannot read it without enabling js, then I won't read the article.

iAMkenough 11mo ago

My browser automatically blocked something that's triggering an overlay to "Disable any DNS / Extension Based AdBlocker to Continue" with no option to dismiss. So the people on Hackernews with adblock aren't reading this.

kachapopopow 11mo ago
interesting, on brave such popup never came up.
- wafflemaker 11mo ago
  Brave is automatically using some list to disable "cookie banners". The kind of thing that you need to manually turn on in uBlock.
lawn 11mo ago
I did not get this on Firefox mobile using uBlock and JavaScript disabled.
_79px 11mo ago
I was able to read it perfectly while using uBlock.
prmoustache 11mo ago
no overlay here on fennec + ublock. Reader mode also available but not even needed.

temp0826 11mo ago

HN has many ad-apologists. It's more ironic than surprising that there's complaints.

juliangmp 11mo ago

I use an app called harmonic to browse HN, if I open a link externally Firefox for android opens it with ublock installed. But the first glance of the article I get is with the default web view. And a lot of places have ads that are okay. I mean I still dislike them, but they don't block half the page as in this instance. And when I see that I won't even bother to open it in Firefox.