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Re:Ad blockers are part of the problem by oelmekki on Monday November 21, 2016 @07:56AM (#13004987)
If someone is wrong here, it's neither adblock nor troyhunt, it's the person who decided to manually block the sponsor banner.

I'm an happy adblock user, but this makes me wonder how blocking lists are built. Did I just give power to some people to filter out any content they don't like from my browser?

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Re:Ad blockers are part of the problem by fixermark on Monday November 21, 2016 @08:05AM (#13005051)
You definitely did, yes, unless you're hand-vetting the >50k ruleset.

I personally tell people who deliver bug reports to me "First turn off your ad blocker then try again." It's a losing battle as a web developer or website administrator to keep up with the myriad ways these tools can manipulate the DOM in a non-standards-compliant fashion.

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