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LukefromDC

@StopForTea Enough of THAT shit from a website and I will block them myself.

Note that runing off javascript will disable a lot of paywalls and adwalls, though some sites use JS to load the text too. The only legitimate reason for a site to do that is when text files are so long browsers use up too much RAM or crash from trying to load the whole thing at once.

Computers these days are so big a well written browser could probably handle the Sunday Washington Post as a single long string of text. Certainly a pdf would be no problem...

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StopForTea

@LukefromDC I actually don't care much about the ads themselves, if not intrusive, but I think the tracking etc without the knowledge ,explicit and willing consent of the victim is akin to stalking and should carry prison time.

LukefromDC

@StopForTea The ads themselves are enough to agitate me, and the tracking I consider an outright threat given that cops can and do buy this data.

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