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Comment by TedDoesntTalk | Hacker News Reader

I can’t read the article. I’m very interested, but Wired has become such a cesspool of popovers, pop ups, advertising, tracking, and general dark patterns that I just can’t go there... even with an ad blocker the experience is annoying and sucky.

What happened to them?

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The cure for insufficient ad blocking is more ad blocking.

    ! row for wired
    ##.itemlist .athing:has(.sitestr:contains(wired.com))
    ! the following comments/etc links
    ##.itemlist .athing:has(.sitestr:contains(wired.com)) + tr 
    ! the following spacer
    ##.itemlist .athing:has(.sitestr:contains(wired.com)) + tr + tr.spacer

Only thing I saw with uBlock Origin was the thing about 'running out of free articles'.

I’m using reader mode more and more, but at some point I’ll be setting up a proxy server.

How will a proxy server block anything?

You can rewrite responses from upstream servers and omit the parts you don't like, like ads.

I don't know what ad blocker you are using but uBlock Origin did got everything.

I'm on Firefox with uBlock origin, nothing to complain about. Out of curiosity what adblocker / browser are you using?

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