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[lxe]

What's wrong with the website?

[edgyquant → lxe]

It took almost 10 seconds to load on my gigabit connection, then a banner came up over the play button before finally a pop up forcing me to give my email to continue. At that point I X’d out and came here.

[beefsack → edgyquant]

I got none of that and it loaded very quickly, presumably thanks to uBlock.

[usefulcat → beefsack]

I got none of that without uBlock or noscript, thanks to pointing my router to ad-blocking DNS servers.

[gcblkjaidfj → usefulcat]

I spent couple days after joining an Ad tech project, because I could not get a working local build.

I had already disabled adblocker at the time, and was even using other browsers. Turned out i also had DNS[0] ad blockers I forgot about.

This story always make me think the kinda of experience we are building for our own families and children online. sigh.

[0] https://someonewhocares.org/

[guram11 → beefsack]

+1 and with noscript

[lxe → edgyquant]

Wow. I guess uBlock does it's magic for me.

[djrconcepts → lxe]

no idea what the website was doing in the background, but the fan on my computer started working extra hard