I&#x27;m generally not inclined to fully whitelist anyplace because even if everything it loads <i>today</i> is safe, who&#x27;s to say what&#x27;s going to be loaded after the site gets hacked. That said, I tried to go through and do some allowing of requests and scripts for places I recognized, including whitelisting the site in Ghostery to keep it from interfering.<p>After adding 19 separate exceptions in uMatrix for both whole domains and for types of requests&#x2F;actions on domains, I still don&#x27;t see any ads but I do see an ever-increasing list of third-party sites Wired is pulling requests from. Given a choice between throwing up my hands and saying &quot;Fine, f*ckit, do whatever the hell you want&quot; and whitelisting Wired&#x27;s requests to all of (disqus, optimizely, amazon-adsystem, condenastdigital, demdex, typekit, adobetm, chartbeat, cloudfront, doubleclick, googleadservices, googlesyndication, googletagservices, mediavoice, mookie1, omtrdc, outbrain, parsely, scorecardresearch, yldbt and zqtk) plus whatever others would be pulled in were I actually to whitelist, I guess I&#x27;ll have to do without Wired.<p>So far without ever actually loosening things up far enough to see ads that&#x27;s AT LEAST 21 different top-level domains Wired is pulling from, not counting its own (and yes, I realize it&#x27;s part of Conde Nast). Most of those top-level domains have at least 2 subdomains being pulled from, sometimes more. My basic reaction to this is that even if I trust Wired and Conde Nast, I don&#x27;t know that I trust all those other sites like &quot;mookie1,&quot; &quot;yldbt,&quot; &quot;zqtk&quot; and whatever other obscurely-named domains.<p>Frankly, were I to see &quot;yldbt&quot; or &quot;zqtk&quot; as a running process or folder name on a system I was working on, I&#x27;d immediately rename them and start virus and malware scans.<p>So I guess my reading of Wired online will suffer much the same fate as my reading of Wired on paper, because while I like seeing occasional items from Wired it&#x27;s not a daily destination for me, and I&#x27;m certainly not coughing up $50+&#x2F;year for it.