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by sparker72678 1865 days ago
I’ve been running into this sort of thing more and more and more. It’s crazy how many page rely on some kind of google tag manager event before they’ll load the real content or perform the main function of the page.

Don’t all developers have ad blockers (clearly not)? I understand managers not testing for this, but for my own work it’d never load for me as a Dev, even.

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I have this problem too. Every time I want to order something from a new place I have to work out what out of 50 domains actually needs to load in uMatrix. The funniest one is the garage. When I book a time for service I get a confirmation but when I show up at the garage on the date/time booked, they can't find a thing in the system. Or sometimes they just find an empty booking that doesn't even have my cars registration number. I bet it's connected to uMatrix blocking some part of the transaction.
I don’t have an ad blocker on my work machine. The light web browsing I do on that machine mainly involves docs, internal resources, and sites like SO — which don’t have any ads or have very inobtrusive banners.
I really think we're approaching the point where this argument is the same as "I don't wear a seat belt when I drive to the corner store. It's right around the block and I never go above 10mph anyway."