As an aside: what a terrible website. Even loads the whole page and hides it behind a read more button, for no reason because it’s already loaded the content.
It’s already trivially easy to track scrolling. I think more nefarious than that. I think it’s so that they force “engagement” on their site, since clicking a button counts as a user action.
If you go into your settings for uBlock Origin, there’s an option to have it block js. Someone on Lemmy told me that recently and I stopped using NoScript after that since it became redundant
As an aside: what a terrible website. Even loads the whole page and hides it behind a read more button, for no reason because it’s already loaded the content.
The read more button is just to track if you in fact want to read more
It’s already trivially easy to track scrolling. I think more nefarious than that. I think it’s so that they force “engagement” on their site, since clicking a button counts as a user action.
You can scroll without reading. This ensures you care about reading the article
Might be a script or something. Use Firefox with Ublock and NoScript. I don’t see any button.
If you go into your settings for uBlock Origin, there’s an option to have it block js. Someone on Lemmy told me that recently and I stopped using NoScript after that since it became redundant