Way too many ads, won't read (uBlock doesn't work in the browser that's integrated in my HN reader app)

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It seems after making it several times to the front page in HN the author has decided to give this (apart from the ads) really interesting blog a new try... I hope they find a less intrusive way to monetize it.

Yes, annoying. The article feels like it's building to a point and then they end with effectively: lots of people tried them, they're not so popular now. The End.

I can only suggest switching to Firefox then, or finding an 'open external links in browser' setting perhaps?

Oh such a setting obviously exists, but it's annoying having dozens of HN related tabs clutter Firefox, there are convenient gestures that allow to quickly switch between article and comments, etc.

Octal uses the OS Safari view for its in-app browser which uses whatever ad blocker you have installed

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I didn't see a single ad but I was on a desktop with UBO lite.