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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by blahi on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:46AM (#12862036)
Adblock didn't do it in the beginning either :) Just like utorrent became popular because bitcommet became slow and clunky. Have you looked at utorrent lately?
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by milcron on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:53AM (#12862053)
Ugh, don't remind me. That was a great piece of freeware before it went sour. :(

But, there are many many alternatives these days: Deluge and qBittorent are both pretty decent uTorrent replacements.

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by bigbugbag on Thursday November 03, 2016 @06:20AM (#12862716)
This is business as usual: fed up with bloatware, one individual make a simple software that does the job, then said software is acquired by a company and now has to make a profit thus turns into the reason it was made in the first place.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by touristtam on Friday November 04, 2016 @11:01AM (#12873100)
uTorrent was great because it was optimized to be small and fast: a single exe file upx'ed.
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