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How do you handle "disable your adblock" type sites? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I know, I know, the wisest thing to do is to abandon them, but today I came across a site that I simply couldn't bypass because it always blocked me with an extremely stupid "disable your adblock" video, that infuriated me so much... I would 100% migrate to torrents if I didn't find such unique catalogs on these sites.

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[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Disable the ad block, wait for all of the ads to load so the text stops jumping around like a crack-addled wallaby, accept the cookie notice, try to hit the tiny X to close the inevitable video overlay with shaking fingers, try to hit the tiny X to close the ad overlay, too, decline signing up for email alerts, decide whether to accept notifications, and then read the article one sentence at a time while scrolling past ads.

Maybe your local news sites aren't as insane as mine?