Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by deusu » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 3:59 PM UTC

hhsnopek wrote: post #9

deusu wrote: post #3

I agree. But I would go even farther. Block every site where you won't be able to read the content without having Javascript enabled. I have experienced several blogs where you won't see anything without Javascript.

That's a little much considering all of the sites that are well beyond static content and must load using RESTful requests. This would completely removing a lot of the web. Maybe if everyone used static sites as the standard when it came to huge sites, mainly corporate; then I would agree. All in all, blocking all sites that load their content would be insane scraping and more than a handful of problems.

I don't know what technology these blogs are using, but on the occasions where I looked at the HTML-source, the content was there. It just didn't show with Javascript disabled.

Yes, you can use Javascript to make things prettier. I have no problem with that. But not showing content that is actually there, that's a no-go for me.

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by gue5t » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:03 PM UTC

Agreed. Forbes is a mainstream news source and doesn't belong on HN anyway. They don't have articles of technical substance about computer hacking.

Edit: It'd be nice if the folks downvoting would take the time to explain how they feel about this topic. Are there Forbes articles that actually pertain to the act of computer hacking, and not just modern (computerized) business?

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by sologoub » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:05 PM UTC

StevePerkins wrote: post #8

This seems to be becoming a lot more common. Whenever I search for answers to Go-related questions, a website called "socketloop.com" is always the top search result. Although they have extraordinary SEO when it comes to serving content to Google or Bing crawlers, they don't serve traffic AT ALL to browsers with AdBlock installed. Really frustrating... that blog site is turning into the "expertsexchange.com" of Go. I…

Just visited socketloop.com and seems to work fine. Using Focus by Firefox for blocking.

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by recursive » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:08 PM UTC

I don't use an ad-blocker to avoid problems like this. Why should ad blockers be considered the default state?

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by malmsteen » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:13 PM UTC

StevePerkins wrote: post #8

This seems to be becoming a lot more common. Whenever I search for answers to Go-related questions, a website called "socketloop.com" is always the top search result. Although they have extraordinary SEO when it comes to serving content to Google or Bing crawlers, they don't serve traffic AT ALL to browsers with AdBlock installed. Really frustrating... that blog site is turning into the "expertsexchange.com" of Go. I…

just press escape before it's fully loaded. Works fine with adblock + mublock

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by eli » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:17 PM UTC

I'd prefer to decide for myself whether I want to click a link, thanks.

I'm sure you can find a suitable plugin or HOSTS file modification that will prevent you from accessing forbes.com even accidentally.

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by alexivanovs » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:17 PM UTC

Seems like a VERY bold move, and something tells me that a lot of other sites are going to follow this idea, in many ways because it validates what others have been feeling already for so long; the loss of potential revenue.

I encountered this for the first time earlier today, and had to come back to the screen that tells you to turn it off at least 3 times, one can hope that it was just a 'temporary' hold to lure people in the idea, but no -- it's the real deal!

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by gpvos » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:19 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #14

I don't use an ad-blocker to avoid problems like this. Why should ad blockers be considered the default state?

Things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870892

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by paulus_magnus2 » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

To lawyers here: if my PC gets infected on Forbes, who is liable? Forbes or the AD provider or ???

Re: Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?

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Post by shpx » Sat, Jan 09, 2016, 4:24 PM UTC

StevePerkins wrote: post #8

This seems to be becoming a lot more common. Whenever I search for answers to Go-related questions, a website called "socketloop.com" is always the top search result. Although they have extraordinary SEO when it comes to serving content to Google or Bing crawlers, they don't serve traffic AT ALL to browsers with AdBlock installed. Really frustrating... that blog site is turning into the "expertsexchange.com" of Go. I…

> I would rather just have its links excluded from my search results altogether

You can. Google offers a personal block list extension. For chrome at least.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...