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Comment by michaelbrooks | Hacker News Reader

It's a subscribe popover so it doesn't count as an ad. I'm running uBlock and it didn't catch it.

Maybe give uMatrix a try, I didn't see a thing!

I use uMatrix but honestly it is not the solution if you want to “just read.” Things are broken and often I need to spend a few minutes setting a site up before it works.

Also the fact that I can’t block individual scripts (can I?) is a little irritating because often I just need one of the 50 scripts loading from a 3rd party domain to render the page but all of them load and execute.

You should be able to allow certain scripts (I think you have to go into the addon's preference page though).

uMatrix is specifically designed and optimized to work on domains. The rules syntax is:

    source hostname {white spaces} destination hostname {white spaces} [request type {white spaces} [action]]

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