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But PR pieces are not exactly spam.

You might block "27 Thoughtful Wedding Gifts" because it has product links, but there is chance some of those links would actually be useful to people looking for wedding gifts.

Such a blocker would have to block the entire Buzzfeed, for instance.

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If anyone thinks that this behavior is desirable, download BuzzOff [1], it blocks BuzzFeed and other click bait on the web. It is more than a simple DNS block, it removes entire elements that contain click bait from websites like Facebook, so that they never even appear.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buzzoff/jhnikgaddd...

I'm pretty relaxed about that

Me too!

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