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Yesterday: "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo laughs off 'crazy' calls for his resignation"[0] [0] (warning: auto-play video on page) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twitter-c

• kidcoach 11y ago
  I had 2 autoplay videos and 1 popup, ibtimes has really gone to shit.
  • wamatt 11y ago
    uBlock is your friend https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock#getting-started https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock#getting-started
    • nacs 11y ago
      I have ublock installed and the popup still happened.
      • coldpie 11y ago
        As usual, NoScript puts shitty webpages in their place.
    • pgrote 11y ago
      uBlock Origin is a better friend. :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
      • pen2l 11y ago
        How does it differ from uBlock (or, how is it better?)
        • theGimp 11y ago
          It's maintained by the original author. The readme is a good place to start researching, but it's not that interesting a topic tbh. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md
          • rdl 11y ago
            I read this and the wiki page and still have no idea which I should run (usually Chrome / Mac if that matters). I'm using non-Origin right now.
            • theGimp 11y ago
              Sorry, I thought they linked to this https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Maintainership-transfer-of-uBlock:-post-mortem/7ad6eb98a72d63060a73374720d383ad841af29a https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Maintainership-transf... Note: that's an old version. The current revision is here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Maintainership-transfer-of-uBlock%3A-post-mortem https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Maintainership-transf... It doesn't seem to matter which fork you use, but I personally use uBlock Origin
              • frik 11y ago
                So the original author transferred ownership (incl. github page) to a the uBlock community, in reality to one of them. It turned out he handed it over to s kid who in turn made some weird source code changes and asked prominently for money/donations. This scheme seems to popular with adblockers, afaik the original AdBlock and the AdBlockPlus had a similar "relationship". And later a German company took over AdBlockPlus in a similar manner and is doing big business in a gray area (whitelisting domains costs ad networks a lot of money and is absurd for an adblocker!?)
  • Mahn 11y ago
    Was there a time when ibtimes was good?
  • totony 11y ago
    I only had some "Get adobe flash player", do I need to upgrade my computer to Windows 10?
• wozniacki 11y ago
  Dick Costolo in a Bloomberg interview in May[1], when asked what he thinks of skeptics who say he should be fired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NrVg-7bQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NrVg-7bQw [1] Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Q&A: What to Do When People Say ‘You Suck’ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-q-a-what-to-do-when-people-say-you-suck http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/twitter-ce...
• awwstn 11y ago
  I don't know much about running a public company, but my guess is that he has an obligation (maybe a legal one?) to his shareholders to not hint to news like this before the company is officially announcing it.
  • kjs3 11y ago
    You are correct. This is part of his duty.