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Re:The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old by lelanthran on Sunday September 24, 2023 @01:10PM (#37634985)
> The other day I was trying to download Blade Runner: The Final Cut. I went to “1337x” but I just kept getting ads wherever I clicked.

I use it all the time (today, yesterday, the day before) and I've never seen an ad, or even clicked on one on l337x.

I can pretty much guess your browser from the experience you posted.

Use Firefox. You won't notice a performance difference, all the pages still work, and the web is so much nicer.

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Re:The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old by jazz_from_hell on Sunday September 24, 2023 @01:44PM (#37635351)
It’s not about the the browser. As others have pointed out, in order to use these sites without getting messages like “please upgrade your Adobe Flash plugin”, one needs to use an ad-blocker such as uBlock Origin.

I like uBlock Origin but these anti-patterns really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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