Techcrunch is an absolute abomination of a website. For those using uBlock and/or uMatrix, have a look at the list of third-party domains the site uses.
No less than 18(!) of them:
* ads-twitter.com
* bizzabo.com
* dscg1.akamai.net
* facebook.net
* google-analytics.com
* googlesyndication.com
* googletagmanager.com
* mrf.io
* oath.com
* sail-horizon.com
* twitter.com
* twitter.map.fastly.net
* typekit.net
* vidible.tv
* wp.com
* yahoo.com
* yahoodns.net
* yimg.com
There's also two (!) layers of cookie consent redirects and the page simply will not load without JavaScript.
Even with first-party scripts enabled the main article doesn't load and at this point I don't give enough of a shit to work out why.
@dang should consider banning Techcrunch URLs from Hacker News IMHO.