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Comment by awjr | Hacker News Reader

I use an Ad Blocker, but happily unblock sites that ask if I see they are not running a large number of scripts.

However the reason I installed the Ad Blocker in the first place is the way some local newspaper sites in the UK (run by http://www.localworld.co.uk/) will try and run 50+ scripts and make it almost impossible to read the article.

It was a defence reaction to abusive web sites.

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It's baffling how bad news websites can be, it almost seems intentional. Displaying text is one of the simplest jobs, and yet somehow your typical local news website is one of the most complicated, infuriating and burdensome websites out there.

Local World are the worst offenders by far, their sites are unusable sometimes - full screen popups without a close button for example, especially on mobile.

Add that to their removal of experienced staff and replacing them with 18 year olds that think news is what you find when you search Twitter for your home town, or 'is this Gloucestershire's largest chip?' deserving of 4 'stories', it's no wonder local newspapers in the UK are going down hard.

Also, this deserves a mention:

http://dniln.blogspot.co.uk/

I have a similar use case. I generally visit websites with adblock disabled, but will turn it on when I know I'm going to a website that has a lot of invasive ads. I would happily download an ad blocker that had a pre-populated white list of some sort.

Just yesterday, I was about to turn off uBlock for a certain site, then I noticed it had blocked ~30 things on the page. No thanks.

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