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I wish I could read the article, but there was just too many ads.

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uBlock to the rescue. I didn't see any ads. Although it doesn't always work on stupid auto-play videos.

Can't use ad block on my dev machine, or at least shouldn't.

Why not? I run it and just disable it on work sites.

I work at Google and I use uBlock... why shouldn't you?

uBlock Origin works very well for me. uBlock non-Origin is abandoned, you should probably switch if you're still using that.

And autoplay video, without easy way to stop it. Ugh.

Most of these "news" outlets are becoming more and more aggressive with advertising.

It's either ads, subscriptions, or they'll run cryptocurrency mining on your hardware. Journalism ain't free, kiddos.

I'd rather a micropayment system with browser plugin that decrements your account on sites you agree to pay per page view. I don't mind paying $0.02 to read a decent article but I really don't want a bunch of CPU load DOS'ing my machine or malware screwing with it or my privacy.

1blocker on iOS, uMatrix elsewhere.

https://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/07/how-to-disable-auto-playin...

It's a bit annoying for pages like Youtube where you do want autoplay to work, so you have to move the timeline cursor a bit, but the upside is worth it.

Also available in Chrome, I hear.

I wish HN would tag these with a [paywall] label. It is incredibly annoying to find out after the 2nd paragraph that you can’t really read the article you were suggested, turn around and do the google search dance.

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