When I read articles on the Web, I do not look at the Web page as
intended. I've long used the NoScript Add On to Firefox, which allows me
to pick and choose what javascript to allow by domain. Can't just read
the Web. No, it has to be created on the fly and then served from
multiple hosts, with text created on the fly as we no long just have
text pages, and images served from separate hosts.
I wanted to read an article cited from Bloomberg. There were horizontal
lines indicating something was missing, which I guessed was a graph.
Trying to enable minimal javascript, I toggled permission for one on. A >popup, putting the page into background and blurred, tried to force me
to accept updated terms and conditions, for mandatory arbitration and
not joining a class action and to stop desparaging Michael Bloomberg's >meddling with liberty when he was mayor.
You know, I've been reading since age 2. Picking up my first coloring
book, I was never ever asked to accept terms and conditions.
I really wasn't expecting to be injured by the Web page during reading
and this is just to trick me into not suing Michael Bloomberg for
something unrelated.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/mapping-the-economic-toll-of-downtown-freeways-in-us-cities
and the toggle is bwbx.io if you use NoScript
On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 20:37:34 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
When I read articles on the Web, I do not look at the Web page as
intended. I've long used the NoScript Add On to Firefox, which allows me
to pick and choose what javascript to allow by domain. Can't just read
the Web. No, it has to be created on the fly and then served from
multiple hosts, with text created on the fly as we no long just have
text pages, and images served from separate hosts.
I do the same.
I wanted to read an article cited from Bloomberg. There were horizontal
lines indicating something was missing, which I guessed was a graph.
Trying to enable minimal javascript, I toggled permission for one on. A
popup, putting the page into background and blurred, tried to force me
to accept updated terms and conditions, for mandatory arbitration and
not joining a class action and to stop desparaging Michael Bloomberg's
meddling with liberty when he was mayor.
You know, I've been reading since age 2. Picking up my first coloring
book, I was never ever asked to accept terms and conditions.
I really wasn't expecting to be injured by the Web page during reading
and this is just to trick me into not suing Michael Bloomberg for
something unrelated.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/mapping-the-economic-toll-of-downtown-freeways-in-us-cities
and the toggle is bwbx.io if you use NoScript
Bloomberg has long been on my crap list after what they did with
GamersNexus. GN comes out with a great video on how GPUs are being
smuggled into China and includes a few seconds of a clip of a speech
that was shown on Bloomberg( I think it was from Trump). So it clearly
falls into fair use but Bloomberg brings a DMCA claim again GN so for
the next month the video is unavailable and they get no income from
the video while the challenge process is worked thru.
Then Bloomberg comes out with their own video on the subject the next
week. One that barely touches the subject and clearly doesn't go into
depth the way GN did. So they improperly but likely knowingly got GN's
video blocked on Youtube for a month so that Bloomberg could garner
the revenue for their lackluster video on the same subject. That seems
to have been their thinking.
On 2026-03-04 20:57:27 +0000, shawn said:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 20:37:34 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
When I read articles on the Web, I do not look at the Web page as >>>intended. I've long used the NoScript Add On to Firefox, which allows me >>>to pick and choose what javascript to allow by domain. Can't just read >>>the Web. No, it has to be created on the fly and then served from >>>multiple hosts, with text created on the fly as we no long just have
text pages, and images served from separate hosts.
I do the same.
I wanted to read an article cited from Bloomberg. There were horizontal >>>lines indicating something was missing, which I guessed was a graph. >>>Trying to enable minimal javascript, I toggled permission for one on. A >>>popup, putting the page into background and blurred, tried to force me
to accept updated terms and conditions, for mandatory arbitration and
not joining a class action and to stop desparaging Michael Bloomberg's >>>meddling with liberty when he was mayor.
You know, I've been reading since age 2. Picking up my first coloring >>>book, I was never ever asked to accept terms and conditions.
I really wasn't expecting to be injured by the Web page during reading >>>and this is just to trick me into not suing Michael Bloomberg for >>>something unrelated.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/mapping-the-economic-toll-of-downtown-freeways-in-us-cities
and the toggle is bwbx.io if you use NoScript
Bloomberg has long been on my crap list after what they did with >>GamersNexus. GN comes out with a great video on how GPUs are being
smuggled into China and includes a few seconds of a clip of a speech
that was shown on Bloomberg( I think it was from Trump). So it clearly >>falls into fair use but Bloomberg brings a DMCA claim again GN so for
the next month the video is unavailable and they get no income from
the video while the challenge process is worked thru.
Then Bloomberg comes out with their own video on the subject the next
week. One that barely touches the subject and clearly doesn't go into
depth the way GN did. So they improperly but likely knowingly got GN's >>video blocked on Youtube for a month so that Bloomberg could garner
the revenue for their lackluster video on the same subject. That seems
to have been their thinking.
I don't get what his problem is,
I'm a Firefox user myself and if it's
ads he could just use the archive.today site and everything shows up
clean even the graphs.
https://archive.fo/MtqOd
I sure wouldn't go to the hassle of selective j/s for every site I visit.
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