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by bombela 2480 days ago
ads. ads everywhere. it's almost impossible to read the article.
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Pi-hole my dude. Makes local news sites actually readable.
So is it accurate to say Pi-hole blows the doors off your previous news consumption experience?
I've thrown many a phone because of the page jumping around as ads load. No more.

Blocks something like 25-30% of my web traffic.

Nice, thanks for the reminder about pi-hole! Been meaning to set it up for so long now! :)
it really is super easy to do. took me an hour while i was watching TV
I set mine up while lying in bed one morning from my phone using Termius (W19, but been using it for years).

It's great.

Try going there without Javascript. A lovely grey screen and nothing else!
Since using the Internet since 1992, this is the worst I have seen it.
Why are you not blocking them?
I use a curated hosts file and I don't see a single ad on that page.
KOMO is owned by Sinclair broadcasting now, which you can Google about and draw your own conclusions.
How do you think Sinclair's purported bias coloring this story?
I don't, I was referencing the tendency of local TV station websites to be absolutely packed with annoying advertising.