The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by headgasket on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:49AM (#11133716)

I WANT TO SAY: thanks wired for the new anti-adblock campaign. You just saved me 10 minutes of my life reading about bee beheading hornets. Now back to programming.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by froh42 on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:52AM (#11134174)

Why would anbody pay $1/week for reading that article we were click-baited into?

By the way, what's the amount Wired would make on ads if I read that article? A few cents? That's probably what I'd pay given a good micropayment system for reading that single article. I'm not interested in a subscription (and even less in my personal data being in their database along with that subscription).

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by CaptSpify on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:16AM (#11133875)

Interesting. I didn't see anything like that. Maybe noscript = win?

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by egeozcan on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:03PM (#11134697)

If you're blocking their cookies, or blocking scripts (because they increment read articles count with js for some reason) then you don't feel a thing indeed. Also, it doesn't seem to detect DNS based blocking.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by DrScump on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:32PM (#11138408)

Same here.

One fun quote, though: "the tiny band of marauders can wipe out a colony of 30,000 bees in a few hours, a glut of beheadings that makes the French Revolution look like Dance Dance Revolution."

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by oconnore on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:21AM (#11133919)

Oops. http://imgur.com/6koHMyI

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