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This blog post renders horribly on my Chrome browser. Then I realized it's because Ghostery is blocking a lot of it. Looks okay in Incognito mode.

If your site doesn't load basic UI elements because they're designated as ads, you're not doing it right.

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Yep, I was just about to comment about this but you beat me to it. You know something's amiss when you have to use incognito mode in order for the site to look the way it's supposed to.

I'm getting:

  uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:

  https://tech.criteo.com/blog/human-skills-ai-cant-develop-junior-engineers/

  This happened because of the following filter:

  ||criteo.com^

Umm, okay? The entire domain is blacklisted?

Apparently Criteo is an advertising tool that collects tons of data from visitors. So why is this blog there? I can't help but wonder if it's part of a scheme to convince people to unblock them.

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> I can't help but wonder if it's part of a scheme to convince people to unblock them

what could possibly make you think that?

really? a scheme so that people will go: "oh I'm so curious about this technical blog, better unblock the entire domain on unblock!"

and that's their scheme for evading adblockers?

what?

I got the same thing with a different adblocker installed.

https://archive.ph/Z6ucP and https://web.archive.org/web/20261007080049/https://tech.crit... have it (archive.ph has it in light mode, web.archive has it in dark mode with no images loaded and some odd page portions).

My Pihole is blocking it too.

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