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Not to mention that the punchline on this joke is covered up with the Share on Facebook button.
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No. Ctrl+shift+n is for
pr0nwebsites I don't want cluttering my browser history/cookies after I'm done viewing them, and I don't want to see the ads.And now if I want to use incognito mode for what it's actually intended for, by your suggestion I have to open my incognito window and then go manually enable the adblock extension in the settings, which is a lot more hassle than the 2 clicks it takes the other way. And then I have to go manually disable it again so I can go back to abusing incognito mode to test websites with my extensions disabled.
Oh, and since I use incognito mode for what it's intended for a lot more often than I use it for testing sites with my browser extensions disabled, I'll really just be wasting a whole lot of fucking time for no reason.
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Yes, but you have to manually turn it on once.
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WHAT WAS THE PUNCHLINE!?
You bastard.
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No I don't. People who use Chrome do.
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LMTETFY.
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There is an other use for this function besides p0rn? :scream:
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When I use the word you like, that I mean what you[1] wrote, not literally you personally.
[1] here I mean literally you personally.
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never heard of TinEye before.
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Very effective if too many customers use your website to make purchases; breaking your website will surely reduce the workload on all the servers that are used for purchases.
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Dammit, why would anyone intentionally introduce more points of failure into their services for no benefit? It makes no sense the first advertiser who disappears or even just performs maintenance will take down so many entire websites.
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Wait. what's the difference? :confused:
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I'd argue it's actually more robust, though obviously less standards-compliant.
I manage the LAN DNS at my workplace, so for me it's all good.
...which is exactly why my little pixel server completely ignores what you ask it for and only ever returns 200 OK.
The only breakage I've seen it cause is on sites that use a script from an ad server to do link-tracking redirects.
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As someone whose CDO compels him to write his own content blocking rules instead of subscribing to a 3rd party list, that just makes it even more fun to take down. And then since I'm generally in a burn it to the ground and plow the ashes with radioactive salt mood, I go back and content block everything else that's not needed to show the article I clicked on to visit. Sites like that don't deserve to have headers, footers, or related links that might cause me to stay on them any longer than absolutely necessary.
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x.add(y)still works, butx+ydoesn't. I suppose it's a setting for people who dislike operator overloading.Admin
TinEye is what we used before GIS had reverse-image searching
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I don't know, I think I've blocked subtraction.
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Fucking this. So many people ITT going to so much trouble to preserve a page's functionality, when 99% of the time all you really want out of a page is effectively a 2kb text file.
SOP for sites I visit regularly just to read articles etc. (TDWTF excluded, ofc <3):
Step 1) Use ABP element hider to raze all the irrelevant crap that ABP didn't cut out, such as headers/footers/sidebars/video players/comments sections/anything social media related. Step 2) Use ABP blockable items pane to block all tracking bullshit, all scripts that are not absolutely essential (usually all of them), and any other unnecessary crap that happens to be left. Step 3) If there are still things that can't be blocked thanks to some douchebags having bribed ABP to unrevokably whitelist them (i.e. taboola + outbrain), nullroute them in hosts. Step 4) Add new filters later when/if the website changes their layout.
Distractions are gone, news articles look like Wordpad documents, page render speeds improve by orders of magnitude, and holy shit is it satisfying to do.
Forbes is the only site that's enough of an asshole to bitterly fight this type of thing, but I think they overestimate how much of a shit I give about their content. If they're in a mood where waiting 3 seconds at their 'quote of the day' isn't enough bullshit for me to put up with, they can just go fuck themselves.
WaPo was pretty aggressive too, but I managed it in the end. Now I have to pgdn about 5 times to get past all the broken html to find the article, but holy shit does it load fast.
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https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-make-it-worse-for-mobile-anti-pattern/53693/20
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Actually I wanted to add a block with a +. Happy Christmas
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Didn't you have a fallback system to render users' avatars locally?
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Daily Caller has recently started to get aggressive too: they use display:none to hide the article body if you have an adblocker. Too bad you can eventually figure out what they're doing with F12, and I'm almost at the point of sitting down to write a Stylish rule.
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I still prefer it to GIS reverse-image.
For comparison, here's GIS reverse-image:
[image]"No other sizes of this image found."
Well of course not... it's slightly different because the Facebook sharer thing. The results are mostly just generic "stay at home dad post it notes" results... here's "Visually similar images"...
[image]Okay, there's the picture, but note that it's even smaller than the rather small original I uploaded. Here it is in its full 236x122 glory; it's actually kinda hard to read at this size:
[image]Actually, if you go back to the original GIS reverse image search page and scroll down to "Pages that include matching images", this does have some legitimate results, but I have to scroll down to even begin see them... and if you click on the embedded pictures, they load in a different tab for some reason:
[image]Anyway, compare that to the screenshot I posted of the TinEye results page. If you're looking for other versions of the same picture, TinEye tends to do really well as long as it has the image indexed (probably its only disadvantage is that its database appears to be smaller than Google's).
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AFAIK all you have to do is turn off "allow some non-intrusive advertising" and then it doesn't matter who has paid the ABP crew for inclusion in their whitelist.
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The easiest way to fight back there is to just blackhole the whole Forbes site. Anything that's actually really worth reading and original will be repeated by some other site that isn't run by a bunch of jerks.
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What? And let them know they "won" their anti-adblock battle?
[insert XKCD here]