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90 points amichail | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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tyleo ◴[21 Nov 24 12:48 UTC] No.42203828[source]▶
I tried reading this article with genuine interest but the page crashed for me on iOS :(

This seems to be happening more often in the back half of 2024. IGN crashes nearly every page view for me these days.

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bschwindHN ◴[21 Nov 24 13:05 UTC] No.42203943[source]▶
This is because sites like this shove ads in every conceivable whitespace on the page, so you have ads/videos/images and JavaScript loading and executing from all corners of the internet. What was once a page that was supposed to give you text and images is now executing all kinds of shit you don't want or need, burning up your CPU and battery and giving you a truly horrible, janky experience even on newer phones or desktops. If you visit these sites on older phones, it's truly excruciating. All for some text of what could have been a comment on a site like this, or a blog post on a statically-hosted site which costs next to nothing to run.

Here was my experience on an M1 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM, in Safari with no extensions:

https://imgur.com/RDv2n7Z

This is why I have absolutely zero qualms with using an ad blocker to the fullest extent I can.

I hate what these people do to computers.

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1. Animats ◴[21 Nov 24 18:54 UTC] No.42207395[source]▶
1. Use Firefox.

2. Use Privacy Badger.

3. Block Google Tag Manager.

All popups gone. Page works fine.

Privacy Badger warns that some sites won't work with Google Tag Manager blocked, but in practice, that does not seem to be a serious problem. Although some will route you through Cloudflare's CAPTCHA barrier for that, you can still get in.

If a site won't work with strong ad blocking, I stop using it.