I just right click and block that message from popping up. I'm sure there's a sympathetic plight that I'm ignoring, but websites just go overboard with advertising and I can't take it any more.
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Dear Websites: If you're going to guilt me into turning off my adblocker don't assault me for doing it
- Thread starter Bomblord
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I just right click and block that message from popping up. I'm sure there's a sympathetic plight that I'm ignoring, but websites just go overboard with advertising and I can't take it any more.
If a site has an ad blocker popup not easily dismissed, I'll go elsewhere. I don't really need to see their content that badly. If a site has a paywall on some or all of its content, that's fine. I choose to pay for WaPo and Giant Bomb subscriptions (and various streaming services; I pay for ad-free Hulu cause their ads are pretty bad on the lower tier). Browser ad blocking takes care of YouTube ads when I'm on desktop, and the ads in the YouTube Fire TV app aren't horrible (most can be skipped after a few seconds).
I'm fine if a site wants to charge for content, but I will not voluntarily sign up to be hit over the head with horrible online ads and dozens of tracking scripts that follow you around long after you leave the site. Not to mention the potential for actively malicious scripts that often slip by ad networks' screening.
My usual setup is:
I'm fine if a site wants to charge for content, but I will not voluntarily sign up to be hit over the head with horrible online ads and dozens of tracking scripts that follow you around long after you leave the site. Not to mention the potential for actively malicious scripts that often slip by ad networks' screening.
My usual setup is:
- Firefox
- uBlock Origin
- Block third-party cookies (adding exceptions on a few sites is necessary)
- Block audio and video autoplay (Firefox took a while to settle on how they handle this, but it seems to work pretty well at the moment)
- Google Search Link Fix extension
- HTTPS Everywhere extension (not necessarily ad-related, but good to have)
- Brave browser (ad blocking, third-party cookie blocking and HTTPS Everywhere by default)
I moved away from traditional ad-blockers to a Pi Hole long ago because I wanted something that could kill ads on my TV, mobile, PC all at once. But have also recently started tinkering with NextDNS instead (more or less Pi Hole but cloud-based and doesn't need any additional hardware) and I'm liking it a lot.
For me it's a simple solution: if don't let me view your website with adblockers on I will leave and not return until anti-adblock killers work.
I don't tolerate ads of any kind and never will.
I don't tolerate ads of any kind and never will.
Yep, if things dont load properly for me, i temporarily whitelist one thing blocked by noscript, if that didnt fix it i reblock and try a different one, and move it to permanent if it's a site i use a bunch. Shit's gotten out of control with the intrusiveness.
Alot of websites have this issue where they load the webpage content first and then load an ad at the top of the page that pushes all the content down a few second later, really annoying.
How hard is it to fix that? If the ad takes long to load then sureley you can just put a fixed height placeholder and then load the ad inside it? Isn't that easy or am i missing something? Cause resetera has this problem.
How hard is it to fix that? If the ad takes long to load then sureley you can just put a fixed height placeholder and then load the ad inside it? Isn't that easy or am i missing something? Cause resetera has this problem.
Why does anyone spend money buying ads on websites in 2019? Other than websites targeted towards elderly people, how on earth could they be in any way effective? Of the small number of people not blocking them, what percent of that mass of ad clutter is being looked at or absorbed by any user?
Every time i try to read some news and get that warning i just leave the website and look for that news somewhere else tbh
And that's the best part of it.
In the past. ad-blockers used to run AFTER the page loaded. It would render, parse it through a list to remove elements, and then refresh the page.
Current ones actually process the html BEFORE it begins loading, saving processing time, bandwidth, all of that, even tracking calls.
But Google Chrome is trying to kill off that feature.
Google is CLAIMING they won't affect it, but they're lying.
Serious question: Is it possible for someone to develop an ad blocker that still reports a view back to the website even though I blocked it? I would definitely use that if it was possible.
Adblocker detection isn't "reported" back to the website itself in pretty much every case as far as I know. Implementation varies since it's a bit of an arms race, but as part of the Javascript bundle that gets sent down for sites to function normally, there's also code included to checks to make sure that the ads are also able to be loaded and throws up a screen if not.
Funny thing is I had no idea what that site was until I saw the trash ass auto-play video that 1. follows your scrolling and 2. has 0 to do with what you're reading.
Actually the overall % of people using an adblock is really low compared to the internet as a whole
Same with me. And one site I visited just today (rhymes with James Vadar) just blocked me from even loading a page unless I gave it $.99 or turned off adblock. Ridiculous.
Advertising needs banned and only authorised under very strict guidelines. The entire industry is a crock of shit and frankly I'm not even sure the stuff works anywhere near effectively as they claim, but if it does then it's tantamount to human psychological warfare to get us to buy stuff so it should be outlawed for that anyway. How much money is wasted on marketing? How many Kwhs of energy is being wasted to send all this extra information, process all that additional advertising crap. It's literally not helping the climate at this point.
Same here. It's like, sorry, but I can find the same content somewhere else just as easily.
I hated Ads from day one (as a child) but this is wrong on so many levels
Certain websites are simply unusable, even after blocking ads. Like those where the content of an article or something is divided into 20 pages, each one with a paragraph and an image or something (at most).
If I didn't have ublock there would be ads on every one of those pages, but at that point I just leave the website, it's awful.
Speaking as a web designer/programmer, I'm glad I don't have to make shit like that as a living, honestly.
If I didn't have ublock there would be ads on every one of those pages, but at that point I just leave the website, it's awful.
Speaking as a web designer/programmer, I'm glad I don't have to make shit like that as a living, honestly.
I don't understand how anyone thinks autoplay videos and modal windows that obscure screen are anything but infuriating, especially on mobile. Even beyond the annoyance of having my podcast/music stop because of some ad autoplaying, some sites are functionally unusable on my phone because it takes forever to load and when it does I need to dismiss three different things through unresponsive buttons.
Noticed the Verge just started doing this. Huge ad that takes up half a page on my iPad, and it pops in a few seconds in just as I'm about to click a link and so I clicked something else. Absolute garbage. Don't know why web pages can't be designed to at the very least know where the ads will go and reserve that space upon initial load to minimise the annoyances of this nonsense.
Why? Why should our outside spaces and our internet spaces be littered with companies trying to sell us stuff? There was a city in Brazil that literally banned all outside advertising. We should have places to live in and not feel like we're just a consumer there to be milked for someone else's profit.
Yeah that example in the OP can fuck off.
Ads are necessarily for a lot of websites to just continue to exist, but if you can't exist by vomiting a torrent of intrusive ads at the user, maybe your site doesn't deserve to exist...
Ads are necessarily for a lot of websites to just continue to exist, but if you can't exist by vomiting a torrent of intrusive ads at the user, maybe your site doesn't deserve to exist...
Ads work, breh. If the ads business model didn't work, Google wouldn't be as rich and powerful as they are.
I've found that Ublock Origin with "Adblock Warning Removal List" enabled is pretty good at avoiding this guilt-inducing bullshit. On Firefox btw, migrated to it the very same day Google announced their plans to limit adblockers functionality on Chrome.
You weren't kidding about that. I loaded up the site in a clean browser and it's much worse than I could have imagined.
And this is with uBlock Origin/uMatrix:
Even with uBlock Origin/uMatrix the page is ridiculously bloated, but that's modern web design for you. Why do anything with clean code when you can import several megs of generic javascript libraries instead?
The problem is that they're still a privacy/security risk, eating your data, draining your battery, and tracking you.
And this is with uBlock Origin/uMatrix:
Even with uBlock Origin/uMatrix the page is ridiculously bloated, but that's modern web design for you. Why do anything with clean code when you can import several megs of generic javascript libraries instead?
Block the anti-adblock.
There are free options as well, but I've found 1BlockerX to be most effective on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x-faster-safer-web/id1365531024
I believe there are some ad blockers which work like this, only hiding ads rather than blocking them.
The problem is that they're still a privacy/security risk, eating your data, draining your battery, and tracking you.
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Me too. I can deal with banner ads, but pop-up ads, video ads, etc.?
Hell no.
Where do I find the Adblock Warning Removal list at?
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Holy shit that is absolutely disgusting (.jpg). It's been so long since I have seen an un-uBlock Origin'd site, similarly to you I would not have guessed it was nearly that bad.
Honestly, internet ads have barely ever been enough. Paywalls, either partial ones like the NYTimes and WaPo use or full ones like at the Athletic, are the future whether we all like it or not.
I reformatted my windows install and visited WoWHead before reinstalling ublock...
...3 open WoWHead tabs where using over 20GB of ram combined. (with Firefox)
I don't feel bad for one second blocking websites adds, they brought this on themselves.
...3 open WoWHead tabs where using over 20GB of ram combined. (with Firefox)
I don't feel bad for one second blocking websites adds, they brought this on themselves.
There is no such thing anymore. Hell, even this place was redirecting my browser for weeks a couple months after it opened. All it takes is one shitty ad to get through and any site becomes dodgy.
It's a sad indictment of the current internet when Pornhub is less egregious than your average entertainment site.
I adblock those.
And if they don't let me progress with an adblocker on, I adblock the frame and then refresh.
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Sometimes I find it fun to edit the HTML to get to the content. It's a bit of a puzzle figuring out what method they've used to scroll-lock the page (usually overflow:hidden on the HTML or body tag) and then disabling it and deleting the overlayed div.
Yep. I hate browsing this forum on mobile. Every now and then I'll get redirected to some "YOU WON AN IPHONE" bullshit.
