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You're in luck. By putting it in blacklist mode, when you blacklist the site with uBlock Origin it's only temporary. After time it resets itself, unless after you black list it you click the lock.

uBlock origin actually does and it's what I am running right now, ofcourse in blacklist mode.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-tu...

Your example about Ars Technica is perfect. They do it great and in a very tasteful way. I applaud them.

The issue lies in that all the people who do it bad, The Verge, etc ruin it for Ars Technica. Why? Because the ads on The Verge are so atrocious they install adblockers. Now these adblockers are all in whitelist mode from the start. Nobody cares to turn it into blacklist mode and require users to manually enable it for the sites. They just blanket block all sites from the get go. Nobody wants to deal with configuring it and being fair. So Ars Technica is now losing out by following the books because The Verge is douche spaceships.

So you have a service you're offering, I sign up and pay your small fee, and then share my login details with thousands of others, making you lose money.

In the same sense as all the arguments against ads. You're not stealing anything. No you're not. But you're wasting resources that the owner has to pay for.

Like mentioned above, when you sign up with the service, you're giving the card info and then you're automatically enrolled in a 2 week trial that will automatically charge afterwords.

This should suffice. I don't think they'll wait 2 weeks for the charge to go through.

You can automate the process of disabling charges to if nothing happens. Say 2 days before the charge is about to happen, you do an automated audit of the account and if there hasn't been any activity, fire off an email stating that their trial is about to expire and they're about to get charged and you noticed they hadn't used the service yet. If still no activity when you're about to charge, then cancel charge and disable account and chalk it up as avoiding a chargeback. Make sure to email the user saying that you disabled the pro features and voided the charge as to not automatically charge them for something they're not using.

It's a win/win situation. If the customer was legit, you just saved them on paying for something they didn't plan on using, and they may actually re-enable it and start using the account because they see you actually care about them as a customer and aren't just hoping they forget about such a small charge and it goes on for years before they audit their card charges and cancel any small things.

If it's a user who was just testing stolen cards, well 2 weeks is a long time to gamble on if it's valid or not, so they move on.

I'm going to start calling it a doohicky.

V8 is the runtime.

So how would we describe Node.js in this sense? It's not a framework, and it's not a language.

Former PHP developer gone Node.js. I agree. PHP has come a long way and doing very well. PHP powers the 2nd biggest website on the internet. Not too shabby.

Most people who come to Node from other languages are running monolithic apps and are looking to replace those apps with the same MVC structure, just in their new language. Sails is one of those frameworks. Express and Koa on the otherhand are not so much setup for that. You have to do a lot of work to get Express and Koa to be a monolithic app.

Worthwhile PHP developers are not cheap either. Unless you mean WordPress developers. (no, they're not PHP developers, they're WordPress developers. They only know WordPress)

shhhhhh, it's to new and trendy.

This thread inspired me. I am giving up JavaScript completely and am writing a browser in Fortran that only allows Fortran servers and Fortran in the browser. I mean, everything else is new and trendy. Fortran or gtfo newbies!

I agree, lets not use hot and trendy, who needs any of that? Rails? TO TRENDY! Lets use Fortran and COBOL!

So I take it your website doesn't use any JavaScript whatsoever? You seem pretty against JavaScript.

> Node.js isn't a framework. What about comparing apples with apples?

What would you call it? Because it's not a language either. JavaScript is the language.

Just devils advocate here but I highly doubt you never performed a search for rails again. I am very proficient in NodeJS, but I'm searching daily with the term for helping fix a bug I have. I am having an issue with es6 classes, I don't search "classes" or "programming classes" I search "es6 classes node.js" Boom, Node.JS now has a search term in trends.

> there is no evidence to support the perception he intended to create alarm.

Good to know he didn't make an alarm clock.

You should hit me up sometime. I'd love to party with you. /s

You tweeted it. I submitted it. :)

Yeah but still $234/yr for a certificate. While I appreciate what you're doing to make things more simple, that's pretty expensive.

I can't wait until letsencrypt is done.

No lag here, Mid 2015 MBP 15" driving 2 27" Thunderbolts.

They don't "allow" anything. No other browsers support HLS

Switch to uBlock Origin. Way better on CPU usage.

Tell that to the big companies who use it in production right now. Microsoft, Netflix, PayPal, Walmart.

So excited!

No, but comparing apples and oranges.

Except one is illegal and one isn't. I'll let you figure out what's wrong with your argument.

So I got my start in ad based websites. If it wasn't for ads, I would have never really gotten into what we do. I'd have done something away from the internet because I never grew up with a computer and wasn't fascinated by them as a young child.

So because of that, I had always been in favor of ads. Not as in I'd plaster my site with ads, but if a site displayed ads, I would endure them because if I wanted the content that's the trade off. Otherwise I could find similar content somewhere else.

Then The Verge's article about slow browsing came about, and the retorting articles about things and I realized ads have gone way to fucking far.

17 years I have been online. 17 years I had never installed an ad blocking plugin or anything. Last month I installed uBlock Origin and turned it into blacklist mode.

I still feel sites who have ads in place that aren't intrusive and annoying deserve to be displayed, but sites like The Verge, or CNN or anything like that which blast you with 300 requests where 90% of them are ads. Or sites where ads become more important than the content; These sites get instant ad blocking enabled for them.

It's time to take a step back.

Embrace it. Use the Mario Bro's coin sound, so then when they come in rapidly, you can pretend he's running through a long line of coins.