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Delivery workers won a mandated raise from NYC. Now they say the apps figured out a way to undermine it::undefined

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I run uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, one of those two must have blocked the paywall because I was able to read through the entire article.

[–] rh4c6f@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Must be uBlock. I have it and not the other and I don't see a paywall on this article. However, I know for a fact uBlock doesn't work on everything.

I just installed Privacy Badger on Firefox.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah it's pretty much the same as virus scanners not catching everything -- you also need a malware scanner. Between the pair of tools I don't see a lot of unwanted content pop up in my browser, and there are a few paywalls on smaller sites that seem to get knocked down. I did run into one problem though, trying to pay my gas bill and the page required access to a site that was marked with high warnings in both add-ons. I think they finally changed it, but you would think anyone collecting money online would do better research into the tools they used.

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