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tanepiperyesterday at 7:00 PM4 repliesview on HN

The web is becoming very hostile to ad blockers. I use a VPN and I've noticed more and more sites just being obnoxious with their popups and even just crashing the site completely in a loop (looking at you EuroNews)


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walrus01yesterday at 7:03 PM

It doesn't solve everything but the 'full' desktop version of the ublock origin plugin runs just fine in Android on Firefox. I can't even imagine using any other mobile browser now. I don't know what the situation is for iphone platform stuff these days.

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loloquwowndueoyesterday at 8:16 PM

If a site doesn’t let me see it with my ad blocking enabled, I just go elsewhere.

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manyatomsyesterday at 7:34 PM

Try firefox, as chrome puts restrictions on what adblockers can do

Marsymarsyesterday at 11:39 PM

I suspect it's not a real crash you're seeing, but rather a deceptive anti-adblocking script that redirects to a page that fraudulently claims to be a crash.