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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by nickysielicki on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:36PM (#14045382)
Most of the people who read HN are probably knowledgable enough to also find uMatrix very useful (from the same author): https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

In short, it allows for much more granular controls over what does and does-not load from any given domain. By default, it breaks a lot of websites. But with about 30 seconds of work, you will generate a policy for the domain, you hit save, and then that domain will be unbroken on every subsequent load. I find it useful as a noscript replacement.

Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by tnorthcutt on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:31PM (#14045805)
+1. uMatrix is a bit of a pain the first few weeks, but once you get it configured for the sites you frequent, it's quite nice – and a nice side effect is that in general, pages load faster as you're not waiting on fifteen extra tracking scripts to load.
Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by M_Grey on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:01PM (#14046490)
uMatrix is just the perfect union of script controls and ad blocking, and honestly even without knowledge the point-and-click interface would probably be very forgiving.