News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale. Parent comment

Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by koolba on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:57AM (#29835522)
There’s a special caliber of crappy site that only functions when ad-blocking is enabled.

My working theory is that the sites are so bad, they rely on the ads to provide their dependencies as global. Block the ads and you’ve blocked the ancient version jquery the main site needs loaded of function.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by MattGaiser on Friday January 07, 2022 @05:06AM (#29837311)
At least some adblockers work on keywords. I once made an api call called 'track' that got blocked as a tracker. It was for the pathway you were on after choosing something on that page. I had to rename it to get it to work properly.

It didn't matter that it was an api for that domain. It didn't matter that it had nothing to do with Google ads. It certainly wasn't on any list unless they were adding all newly registered domains to it.

[ Parent | on HN ]