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I've never knowingly encountered a website breaking because I have an adblocker, but I've being running adblockers of one sort or another for about as long as there's been ads on the web - so maybe there's just features I don't know I should experience.

Can you give an example of a website that breaks with an adblocker? (Please describe what breaks as well. Otherwise I might not notice it.)

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Some local news site's article ranking list somehow becomes empty with adblocking but I care less.

Now that I think about it, if a site wants people to disable adblocking, they should make valid contents disappear instead of begging for it with a popup.

I seen broken sites at least monthly. Uhaul's site broke for me yesterday (the photo upload process to tell them where to place a storage container).

Vangaurd's login page doesn't work with adblock (completely doesn't show it)

Don't have other examples off top of my head

Thanks. We must have different internet usage patterns. I'm using ublock origin, maybe it's just less disruptive. Or maybe GDPR rules make sites in the EU more forgiving of blocked bits.

For the ones you mentioned, Vanguard seems to have a lot of different login pages, but every one I found actually rendered - although some were white for so slow I wondered if they would fail. But not trying Uhaul because obviously I don't want to make a transaction.

Cannot give specific site of hand but for me its SPA sites and the page is just blank.

What doesn't work for you? I use it occasionally and I haven't noticed anything in particular that seemed broken.

Scrolling doesn’t work on mobile if you are using mobile view with content blocking on.

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