You should use a dns blackhole (pihole type approach) as well as browser privacy extensions anyway.<p>Techcrunch has a redirect to guce.advertising.com, which is blackholed... so I can't read their content directly whether it's on hn or not. If I specifically want to read it, archive.is has it without ads. That means they get punished either way by losing hits, which is the only pressure they care about.
I do not know how to better phrase the title. If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know and I'll try to edit.<p>My proposal is that Hacker News mods should block any posts that involves any websites with heavy and annoying ads. HN represents for the average "marketing" person a good source for spamming some nice articles but with annoying ads.