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Oh right, I forget that the people in finance day to day are accessing via the terminal.

bko 6y ago
You can also access the Bloomberg website and disable javascript and the article will load. Most adblockers have a disable javascript for this page feature
- boogies 6y ago
  (Also, I believe all normal browsers allow disabling javascript in the devtool settings — my adblocker doesn’t because it’s just /etc/hosts.)
- tc313 6y ago
  An easy way to do this on iOS Safari is to “Show Reader View” after clicking on any Bloomberg article.
  - sails 6y ago
    Hope they don't see this.
    - r00fus 6y ago
      You can even set Safari to automatically go into reader mode for all websites (I do this, then whitelist the sites/webapps). 9 times out of 10 this is much more readable and is darkmode by default.
      - jdminhbg 6y ago
        You can also set reader mode automatically for just certain websites instead (i.e. whitelist vs blacklist); I do this for Bloomberg, Medium, WaPo, and others.
    - swyx 6y ago
      they almost certainly already know this and dont care
- quickthrowman 6y ago
  You can also add a ‘.’ after the TLD to bypass the block for any Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com./path-to-article https://www.bloomberg.com./path-to-article
  - pandalicious 6y ago
    that's amazing, do you know why it works?
    - smogcutter 6y ago
      The dot after the TLD represents the root domain. From right to left, URLs read from least to most specific. Root -> TLD -> domain -> subdomain (eg www). The root domain is almost always left out, because it’s always the same and its presence is implied. But if you include it explicitly, it is a distinct URL. So idk how bloomberg.com works under the hood so I can’t specifically explain this case, but rules that match URLs won’t necessarily see the two versions as identical. This is actually something worth testing your own sites against, to make sure including the root domain doesn’t do something dumb like bypass authentication or whatever. Edit: also, forgive me if I’m explaining things you already know w/ regard to the root domain and stuff.
      - titanomachy 6y ago
        New to me and I've been programming web for quite a while. I've only ever seen that final "." in DNS records, it never occured to me that it would affect logic within the site.
        smogcutter 6y ago
        You know what’s also missing if you go to bloomberg.com./? All of the ads, and the animated stock ticker. I’m on mobile so didn’t dig into it further, but I bet that all JS loaded on request from another domain (probably including the paywall) is absent or broken. The site itself loads fine though, because DNS still works and whatever routing layer in their app probably doesn’t care about the domain, just the path that follows it.

bko 6y ago

You can also access the Bloomberg website and disable javascript and the article will load. Most adblockers have a disable javascript for this page feature

boogies 6y ago
(Also, I believe all normal browsers allow disabling javascript in the devtool settings — my adblocker doesn’t because it’s just /etc/hosts.)
tc313 6y ago
An easy way to do this on iOS Safari is to “Show Reader View” after clicking on any Bloomberg article.
- sails 6y ago
  Hope they don't see this.
  - r00fus 6y ago
    You can even set Safari to automatically go into reader mode for all websites (I do this, then whitelist the sites/webapps). 9 times out of 10 this is much more readable and is darkmode by default.
    - jdminhbg 6y ago
      You can also set reader mode automatically for just certain websites instead (i.e. whitelist vs blacklist); I do this for Bloomberg, Medium, WaPo, and others.
  - swyx 6y ago
    they almost certainly already know this and dont care
quickthrowman 6y ago
You can also add a ‘.’ after the TLD to bypass the block for any Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com./path-to-article https://www.bloomberg.com./path-to-article
- pandalicious 6y ago
  that's amazing, do you know why it works?
  - smogcutter 6y ago
    The dot after the TLD represents the root domain. From right to left, URLs read from least to most specific. Root -> TLD -> domain -> subdomain (eg www). The root domain is almost always left out, because it’s always the same and its presence is implied. But if you include it explicitly, it is a distinct URL. So idk how bloomberg.com works under the hood so I can’t specifically explain this case, but rules that match URLs won’t necessarily see the two versions as identical. This is actually something worth testing your own sites against, to make sure including the root domain doesn’t do something dumb like bypass authentication or whatever. Edit: also, forgive me if I’m explaining things you already know w/ regard to the root domain and stuff.
    - titanomachy 6y ago
      New to me and I've been programming web for quite a while. I've only ever seen that final "." in DNS records, it never occured to me that it would affect logic within the site.
      - smogcutter 6y ago
        You know what’s also missing if you go to bloomberg.com./? All of the ads, and the animated stock ticker. I’m on mobile so didn’t dig into it further, but I bet that all JS loaded on request from another domain (probably including the paywall) is absent or broken. The site itself loads fine though, because DNS still works and whatever routing layer in their app probably doesn’t care about the domain, just the path that follows it.