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Re:Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS by Rotten194 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:59PM (#10698080)
Also, on a more technical level 4chan's ads aren't served from a well known ad host like Google, so they wouldn't be blocked by a typical blacklist without filtering URLs containing ad -- which some adblockers do, causing [all kinds of problems] [0].

[0]: https://medium.com/medium-eng/the-unluckiest-paragraphs-751d...

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Re:Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS by coldpie on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:14PM (#10698183)
> On most webpages, if you click a link, the browser automatically handles loading a new page. On Medium, we speed this up a bit with JavaScript.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHH

You really don't need to reimplement the <a> tag in javascript. You really don't. You really don't. Ever. Stop. Argh. Fuck. Fucking web developers.

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