The (Comic) Party's (Not) Over

While I’ve known that some web sites are getting more vocal about looking at them with an adblocker active (and have been quieting some of them by turning off Javascript before I head there), just this week most of the comic strip pages I look at every day started pretty much not loading at all. That did nudge me to follow up at last on an article that had turned up in my RSS reader about a “shortcut” to open multiple comics pages at once, but my first discovery was that “shortcuts” only work on my iPad, and my second was that my iPad, using the same adblocker as my desktop Safari, had the same not-displaying problem. With a different adblocker enabled in Firefox, though, the issue became a bit less acute, and I was inclined to reflect on keeping multiple software options open.