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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm good. Just because you can't see ads doesn't mean you're safe. My browser (Vivaldi)blocked 23 trackers an 9 ads on that site. I'm glad that sites tell me, that they don't want to let me view their site without getting tracked. I won't disable my adblocker. When online journalism figured out that they should cooperatively work on a method to let readers pay for the content, I will probably disable it. But that won't happen, because of greed.

[โ€“] Rustmilian 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ublock Origins blocks trackers too.
The ads don't load because the requests get checked against a black list and chucked into the void according.