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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by Semaphor on Monday February 21, 2022 @12:32AM (#30412289)
> until just loading a single news article online meant waiting for a dozen ads and autoplaying videos to load.

That sounds like you not only didn’t block JS, you also didn’t block ads. Which is a very different argument. I only block 3rd-party JS by default (and that already requires a lot of whitelisting for almost every site that has any interaction) and I don’t have those issues because I also block ads.

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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by heavyset_go on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:42PM (#30422253)
There was a period around 2014 - 2016 where even if you used uBlock, ads would still get through. Even now, when I use computers that just have uBlock Origin installed, some ads, and especially autoplaying videos on news sites, still get through.
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