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Comment by ajdegol | Hacker News Reader

That site is pretty painful to visit. Is it someone’s business model to submit stuff like this to hacker news?

Edit: I mean it’s called BigThink; does the flashing adverts (on mobile) between every sentence not make that name a little ironic?

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BigThink inspired me to find out if it's possible to exclude results from Google search results. It's not. At least, not through Google.

With DuckDuckGo, it's possible by including `-site:bigthink.com` in the search query

You can exclude search terms on google with a "-" prefix including websites e.g. "-twitter" "-bigthink"

The same -site:bigthink.com flag works on Google searches.

Google used to provide a way to do this, but removed it (see killedbygoogle #674) around the same time they dropped "don't be evil".

Also clicking on the image when it said 'click on image to zoom' led me to multiple ad sites.

Worked for me: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DM6Z-WuXUAQ9T66.jpg

And privacy badger automatically blocks 15 (!!) different cookies in there

You should try out the brave browser. Using it on my laptop, I actually thought this was a fine site until I saw the comments, that's how effective it is at blocking some of these anti-consumer patterns.

How does it compare to ublock?

Huh. I was saved from the ads, but the XSS to Stripe creeps me. Maybe it's an exploit, checking whether I have an account, or am logged in. Or maybe not. But still creepy.

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