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[–] [email protected] 191 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Basically how I browse the internet these days .... if I have to click on a bunch of stuff, sign up, register, accept a bunch of notifications, cookies, blah, blah, blah ... all because I want to read 200 words on your dumb site ... I'm not even going to bother with your site, skip and find a different source that is easier.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Get PopUpOFF and AdNauseam. Don't just back down without a fight. If I need to read an article to find some information I am going to read it, dumb bullshit be damned, even if I have to break half your site to do so. I've even been spiteful enough to hack away at the page with inspect element if it still manages to get past those add-ons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

anytime blocking elements is the correct choice noscript is better

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

NoScript tends to break more things on the page than is desired, in my experience, I used to use it but eventually I got rid of it because of the hassle of "is this the one I should add an exception for to make it work? No. How about this one?" repeat until you figure it out, and then repeat the whole process for every website you ever use

Using AdNauseam's built-in uBlock, I can use its element picker if something is particularly stubborn

Don't get me wrong, I like NoScript as a concept and think it should exist for the subset of users who want that functionality, but it's not for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

and then repeat the whole process for every website you ever use

The thing is that you soon reach a point in which most of your frequently visited sites are already properly permissioned. After that, only newly visited domains need any special attention, and that's assuming you're there to do anything other than read some text or view an image.

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