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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by mavhc on Friday August 30, 2013 @08:50AM (#6301400)
There should be an adblocker list for popups, survey requests, etc
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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by Sprint on Friday August 30, 2013 @08:53AM (#6301415)
Just disable Javascript by default, it will protect your sanity.
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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by Dirlewanger on Friday August 30, 2013 @09:27AM (#6301566)
But also nearly cripple a site's functionality aside from static content pages.
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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by chestnut-tree on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:31PM (#6303728)
"But also nearly cripple a site's functionality aside from static content pages.

Even plain text pages aren't immune from the Javascript curse. I've said this before, but Google's blogger/blogspot service is one of the worst offenders. For example, here is the official Android blog from Google

http://officialandroid.blogspot.co.uk/

With Javascript disabled, nothing loads at all. When Javascript is enabled, you get a mostly text page that could easily be served without Javascript.

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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by Sprint on Friday August 30, 2013 @09:31AM (#6301585)
As you can easily re-enable it with any decent browser (Opera 12 is great) that is no issue since if you actually want to have a site to have interactive features on its pages, just enable it. Otherwise, you get soothing, plain, static content. Most sites to not require Javascript for reading text or looking at images.
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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by k3n on Friday August 30, 2013 @11:54AM (#6302419)
It is pretty refreshing to load a page and have it usable within fractions of a second, instead of it having to go and fetch an untold number of external scripts, initialize and create the widgets and objects, etc. Not to mention that sites with auto-play A/V are prevented from blaring at you without your permission.
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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by Piskvorrr on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:51PM (#6303816)
"Easy" is in the eye of the beholder. "Close tab" is even easier to do; and very little of Internet's content is actually unique (as in "cannot be obtained from a non-scummy site").
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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by greenyoda on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:52PM (#6303829)
That's why we have add-ons like NoScript for Firefox (or the similar NotScripts for Chrome) that let you selectively white-list JavaScript from just the sites you need. Even if some site requires JavaScript to load, it almost surely doesn't require JavaScript hosted from Facebook or Twitter or Google Analytics to be functional.
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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by robert-wallis on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:36PM (#6303066)
Wouldn't it be ironic if the list were hosted by a company who's revenue largely comes from ads. Like most internet companies today.

Maybe some kind of balance would be better than a block list. Effective ads that don't annoy.

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Re:Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display content wi... by mavhc on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @03:21AM (#6326106)
Ads can't be effective, if you'd made a product that was better than what I use, and specifically targeted at me, via magic(?), I'd already know about it because I would have read a review. Ads are just lies. But the question was about popups asking you to sign up, do a survey, etc. I already block ads.
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