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Comment by jmaloney10 | Hacker News Reader

latimes won't let you read the article with an adblocker enabled

And if you disable adblock the page becomes almost unreadable.

Here's a site which appears to have basically the same info without the bullshit - https://www.alzinfo.org/articles/air-pollution-raise-dementi...

Here's the paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622279/

Totally unreadable on my iPhone. Couldn't dismiss the ad to read the article.

Worked fine in w3m. I wish people on this site would stop complaining that their crappy user agents don't work correctly.

I just curl web pages by hand!

You use curl! Luxury! I use telnet.

Personally I use netcat

Kids these days. So lazy. I browse by having an LED hooked up to my Ethernet port and decoding TCP packets in my head.

I'm using privoxy, noscript, and request policy to block ads, and can read that article just fine.

uBlock origin, chrome, macOS works fine.

Same here, with uMatrix added, too. Rather pleasant experience, too. No autoplaying video (I would see that there was a video and I'd bet it would autoplay had I not had uMatrix).

They wish for compensation for their work. Without that compensation, you don't get to see their work. What's wrong with that?

My issue is that even paid subscribers are served an unbearable amount of ads, e.g. videos in-line with the text of the article. I wrote their support to let them know that I'd gladly pay more on a higher tier to avoid ads, and this is their response:

"Ad-blocker must be disabled to allow advertisements and to continue to continue to the webiste. Paying for our content is similar to paying for cable or buying a magazine. You pay for those services but they still have advertising. Advertisements help to keep the cost of digital subscriptions extremely low in relation to other newspapers."

turning off javascript usually fixes it.

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