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Re:Nyancat on the touchbar by nothrabannosir on Sunday November 06, 2016 @05:40AM (#12884486)
Tip: if you have another browser, turn off JS in Safari. Use Safari until you really need JS, copy paste URL, Chrome, go to clipboard link, retry. It's laborious, but it beats getting bent over the knee by mobile ads.
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Re:Nyancat on the touchbar by qb45 on Sunday November 06, 2016 @06:09AM (#12884576)
Sounds like state-of-the-art pre-adblock technology.

Browsing with no-JS/JS browsers indeed is laborious nowadays. I use this approach out of habit on my desktop machine, but on my new laptop I just couldn't bring myself to copy this solution and installed an adblocker instead.

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Re:Nyancat on the touchbar by xenobioticants on Sunday November 06, 2016 @08:23AM (#12884943)
Or just keep Javascript on but install JS Blocker 5 and choose what scripts run. It quite amazed me how much sites try to fingerprint your browser, especially with canvas fingerprinting.
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