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TranquilMarmot on Aug 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake

Why do they want me to enter my email address to continue reading? I had to delete 3 HTML nodes to get past their "drawbridge"...

Here's the gif for anyone who doesn't want to deal with the (totally useless) article: https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2015/0...

vortico on Aug 7, 2015 [–]

Adblocks, popup blockers, and my custom filters still aren't able to make news article websites usable, so I just don't even try anymore.

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