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When I saw the headline I thought "Oh no, someone bought AnandTech. It is probably going to become a slow annoying popup ad site like Tom's Hardware." Now I l

by jmulho 12y ago

When I saw the headline I thought "Oh no, someone bought AnandTech. It is probably going to become a slow annoying popup ad site like Tom's Hardware." Now I learn that is exactly what is going to happen.

imaginenore 12y ago
Adblock
- tempestn 12y ago
  Adblock doesn't help with the layout and navigation of Tom's though, which seems to have no logical basis, unless you consider the entire goal of the site to be filtering users into ads.
- kmfrk 12y ago
  Won't help you on iOS. Incidentally, it feels these days like half of the websites I open in TweetBot's WebView break completely, usually due to a delayed pop-up ad. It's the dumbest trend, which, at best, only works on desktop.
  - chappi42 12y ago
    Well, then buy a phone which doesn't take away your freedom
    - EC1 12y ago
      Do you really want to do this?
      - chappi42 12y ago
        Why not, what do you mean? If you buy an Android phone you can use Firefox with adblock [1] and the ads are gone. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/adblock-edge/?src=hp-dl-mostpopular https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/adblock-edge/...