Re:Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB inj...
by dredmorbius on Monday May 19, 2014 @05:42PM
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And the site is voluntarily serving you their content.
Your cooking magazine argument is specious: you're not requesting the website pay your bills. The analog would be a magazine which assaults you with inserts, pop-ups, fragrance scents, a 90:10 advertising-to-copy ratio (and most of the copy is product placements), and charges you $10+ for the privilege.
Oh yeah: that's what they do. Which is why I don't buy magazines (with very rare exceptions).
Your cooking magazine argument is specious: you're not requesting the website pay your bills. The analog would be a magazine which assaults you with inserts, pop-ups, fragrance scents, a 90:10 advertising-to-copy ratio (and most of the copy is product placements), and charges you $10+ for the privilege.
Oh yeah: that's what they do. Which is why I don't buy magazines (with very rare exceptions).