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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[–] Alice@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Big sites have caught onto this unfortunately, but sometimes switching to reader mode is a quick bypass. Putting the link in archive.is usually works, that's what I do if it's urgent local news (eg when my state is flooded or frozen or perhaps on fire)

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The fire is quickly approaching your house. Your spouse is collecting the belongings/kids and asks you to check where is safe to go. You see an article published 1 minute ago from your local news with up to date information. You wouldn't disable your ad block in this situation, and instead would still use archive.is?

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

OK lol maybe urgent is the wrong word. "Important" or "time-sensitive", ig. Not something I'm cool with just closing the window and forgetting about.

Also I forgot this isn't normal but I somehow fucked my phone up so bad when installing AdAway that I get an error when I try to disable it. That's probably important context.

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