Firefox + ublock origin. Nothing was hijacked, I saw no ads, and I found the name in the 3rd paragraph. You can improve your web experience immensely.

I find this funny.

On tv, back in the day, we used to have mandatory ads. They were part of programmming..

On web, people."feel" its the same thing. "Oh let the poor owners earn a bit" because of sob stories of content creators and "only source of income".

They dont see ublock as something important

> On tv, back in the day, we used to have mandatory ads.

_we_ didn't.

Safari on iPhone

There are mobile users in the world too you know

Mobile user running Firefox + uBlock Origin here. Works great. Probably not on iPhones though...

uBlock works on Safari on iPhone too.

I didn’t get ads or redirects.

https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

The lite makes a lot of difference, it's only using the iOS content blocker and it doesn't work effectively in many use cases.

I haven’t found that to be the case at all. I replaced adguard with uBlock lite months ago and haven’t noticed any problems since.

I do not know what your setup is. But here on my machine I did not encounter this behaviour.

Safari 26 on macOS 26, Lockdown Enabled (limits javascript to make your system more secure)[1], and 1Blocker (to block ads and trackers)[2].

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

2. https://1blocker.com

My setup is Safari on iPhone. Aka the majority of users

Leave it to HN to blame users for “not having the perfect ad blocking setup” instead of calling out trashy click baity websites for bad practices

It was not to blame, more to tell that there is a solution. Yes it is too bad those website exist. I agree with that completely. But it is not something that will stop until the root evil is destroyed, ads.

Hearst papers (sfgate.com and chron.com) are really bad about this on mobile - the advertising providers just go all out to take over your screen and it takes so long to load that the place you click is not the thing you want if you click too soon. The only plus is all the articles are free to read still.

This really isn’t an “article”. Its not content. Its a click bait summary of another piece of content shared by someone on an entirely different platform

That this content is “free” isn’t something we should be thankful for

Free slop!

This and the clickbait headlines are why I refuse to click on sfgate links now.

Chrome laptop browser on Windows, and the site disabled Ctrl+W to close the window.

Fuck that.