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Comment by troncheadle | Hacker News Reader

Forbes is unequivocally the worst website I have the displeasure of being linked to on a regular basis. Readability is quickly approaching 0. This page kept hijacking my scroll thru the article to keep an ad at the top of my window. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

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I honestly don't even bother anymore:

https://outline.com/xX7xe3

Nice! I didn't know that. Thanks!

Pro-tip:

Add outline.com/ to the front of the article's URL. Much faster and works nicely on mobile.

Thank you!

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/daoolpmoieinofbndd...

Thank you!

Firefox + NoScript + Reader View seems to help

tho I used uBlock to forbid 'weird' stuff

ah I've set my UI to always use my colors :D white over black background

>ah I've set my UI to always use my colors :D white over black background

How do you specify that? Are you using Stylish or something?

In Firefox 53:

Go to Preferences ("Options" on Windows), select the "Content" section, click the "Colors..." button, and change the "Override the colors specified by the page with your selections above" dropdown to "Always".

In current nightly:

Go to Preferences/Options, select the "General" section, scroll down to the "Colors..." button in the "Fonts & Colors" part, then as above.

exactly

but I also changed the below in about:config

* browser.display.background_color

* browser.display.foreground_color

Note that there is UI for changing them in that "Colors..." section in preferences.

duly noted

I just find it faster to use keyboard instead of mouse :D

Is there an equivalent option in firefox prior to version 52 ? I'm forever stuck to firefox before version 52 because 52 is the release that dropped support for having sound in the browser with no intent of going back.

The dropdown that's in 53 has been there since Firefox 37.

Before Firefox 37 it was just a "Allow pages to choose their own colors" checkbox (which you could uncheck). _That_ UI goes back to at least Firefox 3.5. Likely earlier (I'm pretty sure it was in 1.0 as well), but I don't have anything older than that on hand at the moment.

On a separate note, I assume your "having sound" thing refers specifically to Linux and even more specifically to Linux systems without PulseAudio, right? Characterizing that as a blanket "dropped support for having sound" is at bit disingenuous.

I couldn't tell as trying to access the article is hijacked and redirected to https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL= and stay stuck there until I start disabling privacy measures and allow scripting.

I won't even try clicking another forbes link from now on.

Overall, most press/journalism sites I use are terrible. Performance stinks, flash everywhere, ads that nobody clicks on. Horrible.

Not to mention all the "adblock detected" crap. I used to disable adblock, but anymore I just give up and go away. They can all FOAD for all I care.

Get an anti-adblock killer list, it's great :)

I basically enable every list in uBlock. Suprisingly it almost never blocks too much, when I get blocked it's consequently for being on a VPN.

That's an inevitability at this point.

Sometimes it's just css, and hitting the "readbility" button will strip out the junk.

Also, I won't go to a journalism site without NoScript or Focus, too painful without.

It kind of blows my mind that even real, serious journalism outlets cheapen their product like this (nearing the mid-2000s music lyrics website threshold).

Got a NYT digital subscription to see if it was worth it, and I like it. Would be more likely to keep going if it extended to other publishers, and I could consistently access an ad-free, ad-blocker gate free experience.

https://blendle.com/ does this.

I had to copy the text and paste it into Notepad to actually read the article.

Have a bookmarklet:

  javascript:(function()%7Bwindow.location.href %3D 'https%3A%2F%2Foutline.com%2F' %2B window.location.href%7D)()

It'll open the article using https://outline.com/. E.g. https://outline.com/xX7xe3

very nice, wish could've vote more :D

set as bookmark shortcut in Fx already :D

Wow

Is it possible to consume good quality content with Atom feeds? Are Atom feeds a viable alternative to sites like Forbes?

It's not too bad if you disable all:

- 1st party scripts

- 3rd party scripts

- 3rd party frames

It's a shame that it is necessary but it's simple enough in uBlock.

This, a million times this.

Honestly. I despise clicking on Forbes.com for this ad spam.

Forbes is the one known for saying "Stop the Ad Blocker" then serving Pop Under Malware:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-sa...

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