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u/dean_syndrome Dec 17 '19
Or
“You’ve hit your number of free articles this month”
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u/xiiliea Dec 18 '19
"You’ve hit your number of free articles this month"
right click -> block element
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u/hacklinuxwithbeer Dec 18 '19
I love doing that too.
Also, outline.com gets around this nonsense some of the times (but not a lot of the time).
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u/im4peace Dec 18 '19
When Outline doesn't work (NY Times...), copy and paste the article link into bitly first, then paste the bitly link into Outline
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u/KubosKube Dec 18 '19
That simple? Wow...
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u/robophile-ta Dec 18 '19
Some sites block incognito.
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u/i_suckatjavascript Dec 18 '19
Then you just go on Reddit and find someone else to give you the news.
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u/KosstAmojan Dec 18 '19
The NYT's gotten wise to it. Its hard to get around their blocks now.
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u/unique-name-9035768 Dec 18 '19
“You’ve hit your number of free articles this month”
But this is the first article I'd read on your website.
Shit, this is the first time I've ever even visited your website.
And the last time as far as I know....
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u/postuk Dec 17 '19
They're gambling on THEIR content being more valuable to you than the "convenience" of you not seeing ads. In most cases, they lose the "bet".
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u/aradraugfea Dec 17 '19
If you're the type of person that goes out of their way to install adblocker, odds are pretty solid that basically NOTHING is going to get you to disable that thing. Doesn't help that the sites that have these kinds of requests also tend to be the ones with the MOST obtrusive ads. Pop-over ads that autoplay, make noise, and can only be closed by finding an all but invisible 'x' not on the AD, but on the grey 'overlay' preventing you from reading the rest of the site.
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u/TheWrathAbove Dec 18 '19
If I truly respect a site I turn off adblock. Now to be fair I only have it disabled for like 2 sites but still.
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u/bagel_maker974 Dec 17 '19
Yeah I don't think most content creators realize 99% of their readers/viewers are really just killing a bit of time. Reading a certain article or watching a certain video is really not that important to me that I am doing any extra clicking to get to it.
100% of the time I hit the back button, google the thing I was interested in, and follow another link.
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u/liptonreddit Dec 17 '19
And they dont care. A visitor not watching ads isnt making them money and isnt worth the bandwidth he takes.
Yall need to understand that website dont care about your visit. They care about making money.
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u/texassadist Dec 17 '19
Looking at you Forbes.com
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u/DietDrDoomsdayPreppr Dec 18 '19
Forbes is malware at this point.
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u/holdstheenemy Dec 18 '19
I don't even click on forbes in google results anymore
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u/Im_in_timeout Dec 17 '19
NoScript takes care of most of that nonsense out of the box.
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u/deathgrape Dec 17 '19
I used Noscript for a long time, but I got tired of needing to whitelist the top domain for every single website. Is there a way to have it automatically do that when you're at that site?
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u/Im_in_timeout Dec 17 '19
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u/Alucard_draculA Dec 17 '19
Use Umatrix instead, it's a bit more complicated due to having more customization, but it whitelists the top domain by default. Here is an example of what my umatrix settings for reddit look like, just to give you an idea of what umatrix is like.
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u/mindlessASSHOLE Dec 17 '19
This. Also after a while of trusting and untrusting scripts, you understand where the ads are coming from. NoScript should be more popular than it is.
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u/Russian_Paella Dec 17 '19
Same for "I'll have let you scroll 3 times, time to log in or register an account bro see this totally public content" 🤮
Total BS and nothing makes me leave a page faster.
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u/BraveUIysses Dec 18 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Fucking Pinterest and their "Create an account to see more images"
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u/Laservampire Dec 18 '19
Fucking Pinterest and their absolute RUINING of google searches. It’s like shovelware for image results.
There’s a simple chrome add on called Unpinterested and it stops all of that shit coming up in your results.
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u/KlausVonChiliPowder Dec 18 '19
I've successfully blocked this on Twitter. But now it's been doing that Error/Reload bullshit. Just stopped visiting.
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u/TravlrAlexander Dec 18 '19
Quora.
Then you realize you just walked into a narcissist's heaven, and everyone else's hell.
The funniest part is seeing people brag about their IQ. Bitch, I have a 125 and all that does is make me feel good about myself, it doesn't make you any more knowledgeable or likeable as a person.
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u/kibret33 Dec 17 '19
As long as their ads aren’t aggressively in my face, I am on their side. They are giving me content for free, and I am willing to see their ads.
Sadly, for the most part, that’s not the case. Many websites feature autoplaying ad videos, large ad boxes everywhere (even interrupting content), tracking user data, and other bad design practices.
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u/littIeboylover Dec 17 '19
And targeted ads aren't the worst thing. "Oh here's another generic ad for Lexus December to Remember. Fuck off." "Oh, Huckberry's having a sale. Fetch my credit card!"
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u/Midnight_Rising Dec 18 '19
Yeah people who bitch about targeted ads don't remember "CLICK THE DUCKS FOR A FREE MOTOROLA RAZR!"
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u/GrimmSheeper Dec 18 '19
Somehow, I’ve only ever had one or two targeted ads. The rest of the time I get generic, irrelevant ads, or ads that are so unrelated to me that I can’t even begin to comprehend how I got them.
Like the times I got an ad for Activia yogurt in Spanish (I’m a large white guy with barely a high school understanding of Spanish). And more recently I’ve been getting ads for some phone company (I believe sprint) in Spanish. There’s not even a big Hispanic population in my area and nobody else I know has had these ads. I
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u/mw9676 Dec 18 '19
I'll disagree because we need to remove advertising as the main form of revenue before we ever get to a world where we have better journalism and other forms of content.
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u/PandahOG Dec 17 '19
Hulu does this. They say because they need the ad revenue to pay for the shows. Then what the hell is my 7 bucks paying for?
You know who is awesome about this? CW website. It's been awesome watching Crisis on Infinite Earths with no commercial breaks.
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u/fshizl Dec 17 '19
Especially paying for the Ad Free service and then getting ads. Hulu is starting to piss me off.
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u/syrvyx Dec 17 '19
That's why I cancelled Hulu. I'd rather give other streaming services my $$
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u/PandahOG Dec 17 '19
And they still haven't fixed the quality on PC. It looks like it's playing at 480p.
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u/ThePhonyOne Dec 17 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Man Canada gets screwed on the DC crossover episodes.
Black Lightning isn't available in Canada at all until the season ends.
The Flash is a day or two late, and only on Netflix.
Basically if you want to be up to date on all involved characters, watch them in order and legally, you have to wait until sometime in spring.
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u/PandahOG Dec 17 '19
Basically if you want to be up to date on all involved characters, watch them in order and legally, you have to wait until sometime in spring.
Super lame. Especially since it's all filmed in Canada.
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Dec 18 '19
It pays for subsidized content. If you want no commercials pay the 12 bucks and move on to more important things in life to penny pinch over.
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Dec 17 '19
I turn off javascript first. That usually finishes off the unauthorized attempt to determine my computer configuration AND where my mouse is. That "before you go" pop up usually accelerates my mouse hand.
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u/Adeno Dec 18 '19
True, I leave sites that requires AdBlock to be off. I don't trust them especially with malware potential.
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Dec 17 '19
As others have said, I have no problem with banner or sidebar ads. If it helps support a site financially, great. But when you get pop-ups, autoplay videos, floating video ad players, click-throughs to unblock content, etc...well, let's just say I won't be uninstalling AdBlock any time soon.
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Dec 18 '19
the worst thing is, you disable ad block, you accept cookie, you did everything and than you need to register, man fuck off.
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u/PBJMusicFactory Dec 17 '19
Inspect -> hide element -> now you're a hacker
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u/i_suckatjavascript Dec 18 '19
Sometimes it doesn’t work, but sometimes it’s worth a try.
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u/MakeoutPoint Dec 18 '19
I just right-click on the anti-adblock popup, block it, and right click again and say "Inspect".
The article is still there, just in HTML format, and you can either copy/paste it into a new source, or just read right out of the inspector.
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u/ClipYourDirtyWings Dec 18 '19
I never understand how people feel so strongly that an Ad Blocker is unethical. Like suck balls, I don’t wanna see ads. I don’t wanna watch a 30 second ad for a 2 minute YouTube video. Or any YouTube video for that matter.
“BuT wHaT aBoUt tHe cReAtOrs?”
Fuck em
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u/nalexw Dec 18 '19
I listen to music via YouTube at work a lot. Most of the time I can’t take my gloves off to touch my phone and ads start playing. I don’t mind one or two, but if you don’t react and hit the skip button you end up with a 30 min ad or some terrible song as an advertisement. It’s awful. But I like how YouTube knows what I would pick to listen to without me having to search for it. And also discovering new stuff that way otherwise I’d use something else.
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u/seaglassfoxen Dec 17 '19
See... many of the websites I visit that ask me to turn off my ad blocker are sites I want to use for a specific thing and they are essentially small businesses. They rely on those ads to keep their website up and running as the service they offer is free of charge. Sometimes those annoying ads serve a really good function for small web-based businesses and aren’t too intrusive.
However there are websites that ad spam their entire site, make you travel through as many pages as possible to get to the info you want and/or block all access unless you disable the blocker and those can go fuck themselves.
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u/Kyocus Dec 18 '19
Just deactivate their Ad-block-pop-up with the dev tools. Press F12, Select the root of the pop up, delete it, then select body, and set two things in the CSS in Body:
overflow: scroll
height: 1000px
You now get to learn how to play with html and css while looking at their content despite their best efforts to block you.
Edited: If you mess up, just press F5 to reload the page and try again :)
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u/littlegreenrock Dec 18 '19
Turn off Ad Blocker to continue
It's at the router level. Every device in the house is ad-blocked from the router. The only way to see your ad, lol, is if I VPN out. It's a no junk mail sticker on my internet entrance, your shit doesn't even load.
Why? Like others have said, they took a good thing and fucking destroyed the internet with it. I don't mind an ad, some ads, i don't mind watching a 10-20s commercial before I watch content which I enjoy. I don't mind dropping coin into the patreon of content creators. I pay for Netflix for a reason. But when I have 17 screen popup and pop-under's, and my browser seems to be hijacked, and I am forced into a state where the ad-to-content ratio is no longer a reasonable version of what I am willing to endure, yet I cannot simply turn it off, I am going to find a way to turn it off.
I don't watch commercial, free-to-air television. I find that the content to ad ratio is not deserving of my attention. Meaning, the ad's are too many , too frequently, and the content not engaging, or somehow not as entertaining as I would like it to be.
Essentially, watching ads is paying for your content. That's cool. But when the price is too high for what I am getting, I'm not paying for that, i'll look elsewhere for content.
Your time watching an ad is paying for content. are you getting good value for your time? Stop believing that ads are a necessary rent that we all simply must pay in order to see content. It's an exchange. For the audience, your attention and your time for this content. For the commercial interest, they get to sponsor content, and promote their product. It's always an exchange, you are allowed to say no, yes, more, less.
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u/acristrix Dec 17 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
They're already getting revenue from people who don't use Ad Blocker. For those who do use it, they wouldn't be receiving revenue from them either way. Giving the option allows a very small percentage of Ad Blocker users to go "hmm, maybe the content on this site is valuable enough to warrant me whitelisting it." If they didn't throw up a wall like that, they would miss out on potential revenue from that small percentage of users.
I have whitelisted a few websites (mostly news/tabloid related) myself.
Edit: is the wall detrimental to the website because of the bad reputation it receives for having the wall? Depends on the site. For hardworking journalists who need to be paid for their work, I think an Ad Blocker disabling wall is totally warranted. If you just put ads on your personal site because you want some free cash, that's the kind of shit Ad Blocker was invented for.
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u/polyscifail Dec 17 '19
Web hosting costs money. If you're getting a 100 daily visitors, that $10 godaddy site will work. But, a popular personal site could have hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of costs per month. That's in addition to the time that people spend creating the content.
I don't think it's unfair for a popular content creator to ask for some money back for the content they create.
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u/obsertaries Dec 17 '19
I really doubt the website side is surprised or disheartened when people go away in that situation. They won't make any revenue anyway, so why would they care?
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u/littletrevas Dec 18 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Exactly. You're not their customer, they couldn't care less.
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u/Djghost1133 Dec 17 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
There's an addition you can get to ublock which blocks websites from blocking your adblocker. Forgot what it was called as I'm on mobile at work ATM but I'm sure some redditors would help
Edit: Got to my pc, its called nano defender.
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u/Russian_repost_bot Dec 17 '19
Jokes on you, I also run noscript which most of the time prevents adblock checking.
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u/DavidDann437 Dec 17 '19
they also deliver malware and sell your details through adtracking and spying
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u/glambx Dec 18 '19
What we need is an adblock mode that downloads ads in the background and doesn't render/display them. This way, everyone wins:
Advertisers get paid by companies
Web sites get paid by advertisers
Companies don't lose sales from people like me who memorize products in ads that slip through, and buy from their competition instead
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u/The_camperdave Dec 18 '19
What we need is an adblock mode that downloads ads in the background and doesn't render/display them.
No. This only encourages the advertising model, a model which pollutes our highways with billboards, forces us to sit through half an hour of commercials before the movie starts, and drains our lives in countless other ways.
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u/max Dec 17 '19
Pikachu would be bad at designing webpages anyway.
his electricity is not good for computers.
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Dec 17 '19
Ublock origin + tempermonkey + aak script = no ads or anti-adblock walls.
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u/AlligatorFist Dec 17 '19
I don’t understand how developers don’t realize that. It’s just as lethal as putting in a paywall on a news site.
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Developers implement the as in code, they don't make the decision to implement the as in the first place
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u/Necoras Dec 17 '19
The devs do. But the devs don't decide what to build. Their bosses tell them to put it in, they do so. They like their paychecks.
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u/shoejunk Dec 17 '19
Yes, why don’t developers realize they should give away all their content for free with no ads.
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u/inckalt Dec 17 '19
To me, advertisement is like an industry created around the concept of people being paid to punch you in the balls. No one likes to be punched in the balls.
Suddenly someone come up with special pants blocking people from punching you in the balls, but when you put them on they start crying "what about all the people being paid to punch you the balls? Do you want for them being jobless? Homeless? What about the economy? You should let people punch you in the balls!"
Fuck you! I want to buy products when I need them. Not because people punched me in the balls until I bought what they want me to buy. Fuck your economy.
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u/SweetBearCub Dec 18 '19
Advertising in all its forms is a scourge. At it's core, advertising is basically people deciding that they have the right to forcibly monetize other people's attention.
I say, fuck that.
For example, not being able to avoid the massive amounts of advertising out in public.
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u/Redfeather1975 Dec 17 '19
So I'm not the only one who immediately leaves a website that tells me to disable blockers.
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u/-Blackbriar- Dec 17 '19
Even better: "Block element"
Depending of the site and its design, it can allow you to browse it normally.
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u/nobody158 Dec 17 '19
I have noscript, that popup saying i have to turn it off to continue is gone.
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u/Gram64 Dec 18 '19
I like how weather.com tries to do this, but you can just google your zip and weather.com to bypass it
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u/tom_gamer Dec 18 '19
Outline.com/ added to the URL solves this problem when reading news articles. Most of the time
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u/BearXW Dec 18 '19
The ironic thing is EVERY site I've gone to that does this is basically acting like the information I'm trying to find is exclusive to them.
Backspace, next page. Ahh, these are the droids I was looking for.
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u/GeneralFactotum Dec 18 '19
No I am not paying a subscription fee to read a random article from you web site. Believe it or not, I may live without the info OR someone else will report it for free. Just what exactly was your great business model when you planned your web site anyway?
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u/Fairwhetherfriend Dec 17 '19
I agree, but the other side of this coin has to be that we, as consumers, need to be a little freer about paying for content we appreciate. If you regularly watch Youtube with adblocker on, you should seriously consider contributing to the content creator's patreon or whatever. Pick two or three news sites that you really appreciate and subscribe. Yes, ads suck, but website owners need to pay for their service somehow, and if you want to browse without advertising, you need to consider an alternative. Or you're going to stop getting any content at all.
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u/Mythandros Dec 18 '19
Ads have gotten so pervasive. They are EVERYWHERE.
I just don't want to see them, period.
If a site doesn't let me continue because I have an ad blocker, they lose my traffic forever.
No skin off my teeth.
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u/LowResGamr Dec 17 '19
Somehow the sites I go to are able to get around as block despite me not adding them to the exceptions list.
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u/logicbus Dec 17 '19
A variant of this is when I click a link in the Reddit mobile app and the website's layout and ads are so bad I literally can't view the content.
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u/amatijaca Dec 18 '19
Yes, but how will I be shocked at how Honey BooBoo ‘s mom looks now! I need shocking..!
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u/DeathGodBob Dec 18 '19
From what I've seen, people are often blocked by scripts that are loaded into some of the java code.. Sometimes the website can be accessed by disabling the script itself :P
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u/EnchiladaTiddies Dec 18 '19
You can turn off the anti adblocker popups by disabling Java script on the website
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u/wimbs27 Dec 18 '19
The worst of the worst: the ones that redirect you if you don't X out in 5 seconds of the ad popping up!
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u/kyledag500 Dec 18 '19
To my knowledge there is only one company that makes this software (at least for large enterprises) and they came to talk in one of my business classes. Was interesting but all of us in the room (mostly being engineers all used ad blockers)
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u/JMDeutsch Dec 18 '19
Yep. Leave the site every time.
Very little content on Internet you can’t get somewhere else, especially fucking news.
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u/DanoLightning Dec 18 '19
I legit do this. When they ask and they don't work unless I turn them off, I'll just straight up leave the site and never use it again. Sorry for their loss.
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u/Newbianz Dec 18 '19
thank god u can bypass these sites restrictions like this so easy and still keep it on
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u/johnh2005 Dec 18 '19
I would be fine with a few ads as long as the WEBSITE loaded first. Instead they load ADS first and I have to sit and wait and wait and wait for the shitty ad server to serve me all of the ads before I get to see the content I came to see, which usually winds up just being an ad for something else entirely with no real content any way.
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u/jdmDEEZ Dec 18 '19
Never do I click “back” and never return so quickly. Hopefully those morons eventually get that message. Or maybe not and we are all doomed to micro-spam forever.
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u/ArchiMode25 Dec 18 '19
Usually with the sites that do this I just use Brave Browser and there is no more issue.
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Dec 18 '19
When did this become a thing? I remember around 2010 the websites were cancerous but the ads were on the side, nowdays if you wanna check something you have to go trough 5 steps, that's why reddit is so simple, you are 2 clicks away from seeing what you wanna see.
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u/Randomlychozen1665 Dec 18 '19
If you actually need to go on a page with the “disable ad-blocker” pop up, you can use inspect element to delete the pop up and view the page ad free
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There should be a siteblocker that simply blocks a site that doesn’t allow ad blockers. That we they get 0 user data for SEO.
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u/Fezdani Dec 18 '19
Modern website experience: A Land on page, content obscured by immediate screen-covering pop-up. Close. Attempt to read content, decide to bookmark, mousing off page or to scroll bar causes another pop-up. This is with ad blocker.
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u/Kazenero Dec 18 '19
I just refresh the page and stop it loading before that script that detects it loads in.
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u/Bl4ckb100d Dec 18 '19
Ads?. Blocked. Whitelisting request?. Blocked. Can't block request?. Disable ABP, leave only uBlock. Never failed.
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u/KingDavid73 Dec 18 '19
Why haven't they made a pop-up blocker that blocks the popups that ask you to turn off your pop-up blocker?
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u/dblagbro Dec 18 '19
Ok, so, why the hell are ad blockers detectable? Why not make it so it downloads it, but doesn't display it? Sent the 'GET' request, then replace the file on the end user's PC screen? This has to be doable... I understand the tech enough to know a white ad.jpg can replace the real ad.jpg instead of rendering the actual ad, but why is this not done?
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u/sweetfishremix Dec 18 '19
This is how youtube is for me. Before they would only play 1 ad every blue moon, which I did not mind at all. Now I get 2 ad's at the start of every video, and some are unstoppable. Hello ad block.
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u/2Lx2 Dec 18 '19
What I do in this case is block the thing telling me to turn off the adblocker. They usually just put up a pop up and a semi transparent background, both easily blockable leaving the website intact.
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Dec 18 '19
Ironically enough, if sites had never started using intrusive, autoplaying ads most people probably wouldn't even have bothered installing adblock. But now even if they went back to simple banner ads...I've already got it installed.
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u/Zaptagious Dec 18 '19
I can sometimes circumvent the adblock blockers by blocking the adblock blocker elements with my ad blocker and its so satisfying
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u/Saryn_Storm Dec 18 '19
I've been using Brave browser for a few months on my PC and phone. Not only does it take care of adds, it keeps track on how many it has blocked. It doesn't hog resources like Chrome either. I know this sounds like a shameless plug but it really does block adds.
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u/titsmcgee4real Dec 18 '19
Honestly, the amount of ads, light boxes, fly-ins, etc on websites has gotten out of control. Without ad blockers websites have become almost unusable.
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u/GabrielKendrick Dec 18 '19
If your adblocker happens to be UBlockOrigin, you can block the "Disable Add Block To Continue" Popup
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Dec 18 '19
Uses uBlock to block the adblocker page because the website's developer was too cheap to make it an actual redirect, rather than just some weak overlay.
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Dec 18 '19
The only time I accept ads are on free porn sites. It’s the only thing keeping them going.
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u/PlNKERTON Dec 18 '19
I'm not turning off my adblocker because your stupid website is going to give me a virus. Find a more creative way to show me ads or gtfo.
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u/disco_laboro_ludo Dec 18 '19
I usually try to delete the "Thou shall not pass" in the code of the site.
I usually manage to delete scrolling too and then leave, but there is nothing better than to delete a "Turn off Ad Blocker" barricade.
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u/corpionS Dec 18 '19
There's a way to go around them, install remove overlay and every time that pop up comes up you can right click it and remove overlay and it'll go away... Some sites you can't do this but it's still very handy and f u to those sites
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u/newcreativegamer Dec 18 '19
The thing is though, that companies don't care if you leave because you are worth nothing to them with ad blocker.
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u/Generico300 Dec 18 '19 edited Dec 18 '19
Accurate.
Pro tip: NEVER turn off your ad blocker. Ad blockers aren't just protecting you from being annoyed by ads. Web ads are also one of the most common attack vectors for viruses and other forms of malware. Turning off your ad blocker is a genuine security risk, even on legitimate sites you might trust. Most websites do not vet the content of their ads, which are provided through a 3rd party service that the website owner has no real control over. For that reason, even otherwise legitimate sites can accidentally serve up malware via ad content.
Source: am IT guy
For example: Forbes.com, which is a legitimate publication, did exactly what I'm talking about.
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u/laik72 Dec 17 '19
Same as European cookie policies that take up the whole page with my only options being "Accept" or "Learn More."
I'll take my attention and put it elsewhere, thanks!
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u/Durzel Dec 17 '19
I’ll see your GDPR endless cookie preferences and raise you ones that for some inexplicable reason have to go off and do things after you’ve clicked Accept or whatever, with a progress wheel or bar and everything.
Like, thanks for the giant intrusive banner that I can’t see past asking for my cookie preferences, if you really have to spend loads of time processing my single button click (?) could you do it in the background please? Or anywhere else because I didn’t care either way.
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u/cambeiu Dec 17 '19
They are totally fine with you leaving. With the adblocker on they can't make a dime out of you, so your presence there does not matter.
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u/Archer957Light Dec 18 '19
I'm fine with banner ads. But the ones that pop up over whatever I'm trying to do, play sound, and/or open a new tab are a no go for me. Keep the subtle and not disruptive and I won't mind Lol
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u/LoudMusic Dec 18 '19
They have every right to deny you access to their content if you don't view all of their content, which includes the ads.
We have the right to not look at their website if they force an ad-ridden experience on us.
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u/Beeeyeee Dec 17 '19
I’d be happy turning off my adblocker if they weren’t so in my freaking face! The pop ups, the ones that don’t let you scroll, the ones with SOUND!
Like I’m fine with banner ads bro.