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Re:AnandTech Acquired by Purch by jmulho on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @05:01PM (#8764616)
When I saw the headline I thought "Oh no, someone bought AnandTech. It is probably going to become a slow annoying popup ad site like Tom's Hardware." Now I learn that is exactly what is going to happen.
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Re:AnandTech Acquired by Purch by imaginenore on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @05:51PM (#8764894)
Adblock
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Re:AnandTech Acquired by Purch by tempestn on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @07:52PM (#8765442)
Adblock doesn't help with the layout and navigation of Tom's though, which seems to have no logical basis, unless you consider the entire goal of the site to be filtering users into ads.
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Re:AnandTech Acquired by Purch by kmfrk on Thursday December 18, 2014 @03:27AM (#8766458)
Won't help you on iOS.

Incidentally, it feels these days like half of the websites I open in TweetBot's WebView break completely, usually due to a delayed pop-up ad. It's the dumbest trend, which, at best, only works on desktop.

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Re:AnandTech Acquired by Purch by chappi42 on Thursday December 18, 2014 @07:41AM (#8766979)
Well, then buy a phone which doesn't take away your freedom
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Re:AnandTech Acquired by Purch by EC1 on Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:12PM (#8769061)
Do you really want to do this?
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Re:AnandTech Acquired by Purch by chappi42 on Saturday December 20, 2014 @09:26AM (#8776693)
Why not, what do you mean?

If you buy an Android phone you can use Firefox with adblock [1] and the ads are gone.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/adblock-edge/...

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