Sunday, June 17, 2018

How To Read Business Insider and other Purposely Obscured Pages

It's annoying to come upon a page that is obscured because you are using an ad blocker.
Most of these news stories are run elsewhere and you can search for them, but that is a hassle.
To read the ad blocker obscured page, what I do is start a screen recording.
Usually these pages are readable for about 3 seconds or so.
So in the screen recording, I refresh the page and start scrolling down.
It may take one or two page refreshes to get to the bottom.
Then stop the screen recording and watch the recorded movie.
You can skim or pan the movie and it scrolls the page so you can read what was recorded.
And that is how to read an obscured web page.

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