The News Site Sent Me The Article, Then Deleted It
Newsquest, National World, Reach and others send your browser the complete article with its stylesheets, then run commercial anti-adblock and consent code that blanks the page, deletes every stylesheet every 100ms or covers it with a choice between 1,467 tracking partners and £2.99 a month. This walks through what that code does, the four reasons I call it malware, and the Chrome extension I built over one day to keep the page: pinning Newsquest’s adLight flag before the wall builds, dropping the timers scheduled from eval, killing the stylesheet stripper at schedule time, and refusing consent properly by answering the TCF API with no, pressing the vendor’s own reject button and never storing the record. Then the fixes that made things worse, the probe that said a broken page was fine, share buttons and the MSN feed, and what the extension will not do.