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Not possible to read DCT. Blocked. I do not, nor have I ever used ad blocking setting in my browsers or via third party app or service. Firefox DuckDuckGo browser on the iPad is showing this , which prevents reading the content. Even though the advertising I recall from past reads on DCT is annoying, I just ignore it.

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Can you try another browser?

I can. But I will not. I isolate my forum and social media any from my normal browsing, where a posted link might contaminate. Same for visiting websites who allow sketchy ads which also are more likely to have been planted there with bad intent.

The DuckDuckGo browser is doing it's job well. Even though I am not blocking advertisements I am not allowing Trackers. Apparently the advertisement network in use at DCT is recognizing that I have anti-tracker setting turned on, and is spuriously reporting to the website owner at I am ad-blocking.

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I'll report it to the editor again then. Can you temporarily disable the tracker to view DCT articles?

Yes I can read using another device that is not one of my primary ones. Thanks.

I see DCT works fine on my Firefox on one of my other Android phones that I use as an isolated test sandbox to visit websites like DCT who allow sketchy advertisement services. So I'll never visit DCT from any of my main daily devices until they stop blocking browsers like Brave and DuckDuckGo which do not allow Trackers.

I know the reason Firefox works is because it does not have a Block Trackers option. Which means I will never use Firefox to visit DCT

I didn’t know this about DuckDuckGo. Seems to be a big positive. What are the negatives?

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From our DCT editor:

He definitely has some sort of ad-blocker active somewhere.

I see he's using the DuckDuckGo browser on an iPad. Well, you can let him know that the DuckDuckGo browser block ads by default, ad-blocking and anti-tracking is built into the browser.

If he's going to use a privacy oriented browser such as DuckDuckGo or Brave, ads will be blocked by default.

First, it is not the same as Brave browser which promotes itself as intentionally blocking all advertising.

In my post I wrote clearly, that I have settings in DuckDuckGo browser to block Trackers, not Ads. So this means, yes, sites that force intrusive type of advertising via tricks when performing the tracking handshake will not get their ads through. I am using that browser to stop exactly this type of sketchy abusive behavior. If DCT is fine with that then me, the customer, will not be able read their content or pay them by reading normal conventional advertising that their competitors provide. I only visit sites of their competitors who follow the rules.