Comment by kbenson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by kbenson | Hacker News Reader

With uBlock enabled some script that removed the semi-transparent white overlay doesn't get loaded, so the article presents as faded and hard to read.

I mention this to help people figure out what's going on, and let people that see it make an informed decision whether to visit, not to start a discussion on the merits of this practice.

Please, that discussion has been done to death. People have very strong convictions, strongly held, which is not a recipe for a useful discussion.

the article presents as faded and hard to read

There are many different ways to skin a cat, so to speak.

In my case I read NY Times without any Javascript, courtesy of Noscript. So in order to easily read, I simply needed to

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Re: uBlock problem: you need to allow the nyt.com domain, then it works fine.

Or inspect element and delete the overlay. Same effort, less surrender.

I do not see this issue with default filter lists.

Well, I'm using uBlock Origin, but I haven't futzed with the default block lists from what I can remember. I'm not really sure the difference between the origin and non-origin versions, so maybe it's related to that? You're probably uniquely suited to answer that... ;)

I could finally reproduce, once in a while when I open the dev console, so there appear to be a timing issue. I added a filter in uBO's filters to deal with this.

Thanks for your good work!

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