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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by ballenf on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:11PM (#14965217)
Never seen a pay/subscription site with an anti-adblocker. It wouldn't load until I let it connect to facebook, twitter, scorecardresearch and load a 1st party tracking script included in two tracker lists (Fanboy's and another). It was so tenacious it piqued my curiosity.

Really hard to fathom the thinking behind that. At first I thought it must be a pirate site that depended on ad revenue, but nope it's $8 / month.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by rypskar on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:54AM (#14966405)
MotorTrend on demand have the same, but is only a white overlay over the whole page. So it is enough to set the overlay to display none to get the site to work without allowing a bunch of tracking scripts
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