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So this awful website hijacked my back button, directed me to an ad, and instead of telling me the name of the fish immediately, made me search for it deep in t

by spaceman_2020 9mo ago

So this awful website hijacked my back button, directed me to an ad, and instead of telling me the name of the fish immediately, made me search for it deep in the article Yeah, no wonder the web is dying

cwnyth 9mo ago
Firefox + ublock origin. Nothing was hijacked, I saw no ads, and I found the name in the 3rd paragraph. You can improve your web experience immensely.
- 2Gkashmiri 9mo ago
  I find this funny. On tv, back in the day, we used to have mandatory ads. They were part of programmming.. On web, people."feel" its the same thing. "Oh let the poor owners earn a bit" because of sob stories of content creators and "only source of income". They dont see ublock as something important
  - hulitu 9mo ago
    > On tv, back in the day, we used to have mandatory ads. _we_ didn't.
- spaceman_2020 9mo ago
  Safari on iPhone There are mobile users in the world too you know
  - ycombinete 9mo ago
    uBlock works on Safari on iPhone too. I didn’t get ads or redirects. https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...
    - wooger 9mo ago
      The lite makes a lot of difference, it's only using the iOS content blocker and it doesn't work effectively in many use cases.
      - ycombinete 9mo ago
        I haven’t found that to be the case at all. I replaced adguard with uBlock lite months ago and haven’t noticed any problems since.
  - shawn_w 9mo ago
    Mobile user running Firefox + uBlock Origin here. Works great. Probably not on iPhones though...
peterspath 9mo ago
I do not know what your setup is. But here on my machine I did not encounter this behaviour. Safari 26 on macOS 26, Lockdown Enabled (limits javascript to make your system more secure)[1], and 1Blocker (to block ads and trackers)[2]. 1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 2. https://1blocker.com https://1blocker.com
- spaceman_2020 9mo ago
  My setup is Safari on iPhone. Aka the majority of users Leave it to HN to blame users for “not having the perfect ad blocking setup” instead of calling out trashy click baity websites for bad practices
  - peterspath 9mo ago
    It was not to blame, more to tell that there is a solution. Yes it is too bad those website exist. I agree with that completely. But it is not something that will stop until the root evil is destroyed, ads.
stevenwoo 9mo ago
Hearst papers (sfgate.com and chron.com) are really bad about this on mobile - the advertising providers just go all out to take over your screen and it takes so long to load that the place you click is not the thing you want if you click too soon. The only plus is all the articles are free to read still.
- spaceman_2020 9mo ago
  This really isn’t an “article”. Its not content. Its a click bait summary of another piece of content shared by someone on an entirely different platform That this content is “free” isn’t something we should be thankful for
- the_real_cher 9mo ago
  Free slop!
IAmBroom 9mo ago
Chrome laptop browser on Windows, and the site disabled Ctrl+W to close the window. Fuck that.
scubazealous 9mo ago
This and the clickbait headlines are why I refuse to click on sfgate links now.

cwnyth 9mo ago

Firefox + ublock origin. Nothing was hijacked, I saw no ads, and I found the name in the 3rd paragraph. You can improve your web experience immensely.

2Gkashmiri 9mo ago
I find this funny. On tv, back in the day, we used to have mandatory ads. They were part of programmming.. On web, people."feel" its the same thing. "Oh let the poor owners earn a bit" because of sob stories of content creators and "only source of income". They dont see ublock as something important
- hulitu 9mo ago
  > On tv, back in the day, we used to have mandatory ads. _we_ didn't.
spaceman_2020 9mo ago
Safari on iPhone There are mobile users in the world too you know
- ycombinete 9mo ago
  uBlock works on Safari on iPhone too. I didn’t get ads or redirects. https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...
  - wooger 9mo ago
    The lite makes a lot of difference, it's only using the iOS content blocker and it doesn't work effectively in many use cases.
    - ycombinete 9mo ago
      I haven’t found that to be the case at all. I replaced adguard with uBlock lite months ago and haven’t noticed any problems since.
- shawn_w 9mo ago
  Mobile user running Firefox + uBlock Origin here. Works great. Probably not on iPhones though...

peterspath 9mo ago

I do not know what your setup is. But here on my machine I did not encounter this behaviour. Safari 26 on macOS 26, Lockdown Enabled (limits javascript to make your system more secure)[1], and 1Blocker (to block ads and trackers)[2]. 1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 2. https://1blocker.com https://1blocker.com

spaceman_2020 9mo ago
My setup is Safari on iPhone. Aka the majority of users Leave it to HN to blame users for “not having the perfect ad blocking setup” instead of calling out trashy click baity websites for bad practices
- peterspath 9mo ago
  It was not to blame, more to tell that there is a solution. Yes it is too bad those website exist. I agree with that completely. But it is not something that will stop until the root evil is destroyed, ads.

stevenwoo 9mo ago

Hearst papers (sfgate.com and chron.com) are really bad about this on mobile - the advertising providers just go all out to take over your screen and it takes so long to load that the place you click is not the thing you want if you click too soon. The only plus is all the articles are free to read still.

spaceman_2020 9mo ago
This really isn’t an “article”. Its not content. Its a click bait summary of another piece of content shared by someone on an entirely different platform That this content is “free” isn’t something we should be thankful for
the_real_cher 9mo ago
Free slop!

IAmBroom 9mo ago

Chrome laptop browser on Windows, and the site disabled Ctrl+W to close the window. Fuck that.

scubazealous 9mo ago

This and the clickbait headlines are why I refuse to click on sfgate links now.