Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by kachapopopow on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:59AM
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It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
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Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by nottorp on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:05AM
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Well I run an ad blocker too, but maybe we should try browsing submitted URLs without blocking ads and only upvote them IF we can still read them like that.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by everdrive on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:19PM
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I take a similar approach, but with noscript. If you cannot read it without enabling js, then I won't read the article.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by temp0826 on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:17AM
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HN has many ad-apologists. It's more ironic than surprising that there's complaints.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by mnmalst on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:01AM
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Totally agree. Every time I see someone complaining about ads, I think "What ads?"
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by a012 on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:06AM
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Their adblock shamming overlay is also blocking part of the screen (on mobile) by the way
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by prmoustache on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:47AM
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Don't see that overlay on fennec + adblock, what are you using?
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by kachapopopow on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:10AM
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brave seems to have some special sauce since it appears to be able to hide the fact that ads were removed. I am guessing they are doing so without triggering dom events.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by iAMkenough on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:08AM
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My browser automatically blocked something that's triggering an overlay to "Disable any DNS / Extension Based AdBlocker to Continue" with no option to dismiss.
So the people on Hackernews with adblock aren't reading this.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by prmoustache on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:48AM
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no overlay here on fennec + ublock.
Reader mode also available but not even needed.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by PoisedProto on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:22AM
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I was able to read it perfectly while using uBlock.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by lawn on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:16AM
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I did not get this on Firefox mobile using uBlock and JavaScript disabled.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by kachapopopow on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:11AM
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interesting, on brave such popup never came up.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by wafflemaker on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:03AM
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Brave is automatically using some list to disable "cookie banners". The kind of thing that you need to manually turn on in uBlock.
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
by juliangmp on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:47AM
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I use an app called harmonic to browse HN, if I open a link externally Firefox for android opens it with ublock installed.
But the first glance of the article I get is with the default web view.
And a lot of places have ads that are okay. I mean I still dislike them, but they don't block half the page as in this instance. And when I see that I won't even bother to open it in Firefox.