Well I run an ad blocker too, but maybe we should try browsing submitted URLs without blocking ads and only upvote them IF we can still read them like that.

HN has many ad-apologists. It's more ironic than surprising that there's complaints.

I use an app called harmonic to browse HN, if I open a link externally Firefox for android opens it with ublock installed. But the first glance of the article I get is with the default web view.

And a lot of places have ads that are okay. I mean I still dislike them, but they don't block half the page as in this instance. And when I see that I won't even bother to open it in Firefox.

Totally agree. Every time I see someone complaining about ads, I think "What ads?"

My browser automatically blocked something that's triggering an overlay to "Disable any DNS / Extension Based AdBlocker to Continue" with no option to dismiss.

So the people on Hackernews with adblock aren't reading this.