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This site needs to be banned from HN. It's borderline spam employing every trick in the book to maximise your pageview.

Clickbait title, interstitial ads, floating vid, back jacking, newsletter, notification...

When I open the page it's only a third that's content -- and that's only the clickbait title.

What garbage...

While I agree that it's a trash site and an embarrassment to its roots as The Chronicle's website, anyone like yourself who notices how bad it is would do well to take it as a reminder that your adblocker is missing or not working. It appeared as though it were a normal site to me with ublock origin.

Maybe we can just block the actual origin of the ads; No need for excess plugins.

If the origin of ads is hosting fees, I agree. The internet would a lot more fun if everyone’s side projects persisted forever by default.

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