Disgraced Massachusetts cop Matthew Farwell, 38, strangled Sandra Birchmore, 23, in 2021 after she revealed she was pregnant with his child, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

Farwell is accused of having a years-long sexual relationship with Birchmore, beginning when she was 15 and he was 27, the US Attorney’s Office said.

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    I’m conflicted if it’s better to read this with the giant ad collapsed, but that would show another video ad that covers the text, or let the giant ad take 70% of the screen

    giant ad collapsed

    giant ad as default

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      After hiding behind an adblocker for years, it’s easy to forget what a hellscape a lot of the internet is. Thanks for the reminder.

      For surfing and opening links, I use Firefox + ublock origin + noscript on my pc & android devices. I still use chrome for logging into services because more and more sites depend on popups and scripts for no good reason. It works pretty well most of the time.

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      Mull with uBlock Origin and third-party frames+scripts blocked.

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        Edit: my bad, that was with my normalize userstyle. Original looks like this:

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      Ad agencies: why do you hate us we provide a valuable and necessary service and fund all of your favorite free things!

      The ads: Po[GIANT FUCKING AD]lic[UNSTOPPABLE VIDEO AD]e det[FUCK YOU HERE’S AN AD FOR TINY COCK PILLS]ecti[YOU WANNA SEE BOOBIES AT WORK HERE’S AN AD]ve found[DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE VIDEO IT SCROLLS WITH YOU MOTHERFUCKER]

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      What the actual hell!? The internet looks like this these days!?

      (I use an adblocker so I don’t see this crap)

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      If you disable javascript, you’ll have no problems. The ads won’t have any scripts to load from and you’ll easily be able to read all the text.