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This. So many times.

Sites like the BBC go in for this nonsense with their “Breakinng News” pop over.

Or Reddit taking a third of the screen to push their app.

Even this Bloomberg article has one of those annoying scroll back vanity flaps.

Adblockers are a way of asserting control over how content is displayed, something that was part of the original design of the web.

Many content creators think only they should control display of information hence the push to apps and removing control from users.



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