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Is there a way to read Forbes articles without disabling content blockers? I don't want to go back to all those cookies and ad trackers.
by patman81 11y ago
Is there a way to read Forbes articles without disabling content blockers?
I don't want to go back to all those cookies and ad trackers.
- seszett 11y agoIt works fine for me, using Ghostery. Well, for some definitions of "works fine" - I have no idea how someone came up with the idea of having multipage articles, while at the same time loading other articles with infinite scrolling. I can be on page 2/4 of this article, scroll a bit to the bottom and end up reading something on passwords.
- intopieces 11y agoI turned off uBlock for the landing page then turned it back on. I think I triggered the 30-days, though. Here's a pastebin of it. http://pastebin.com/G9yK3AnP http://pastebin.com/G9yK3AnP
- babo 11y agoIt just works in this case without any trick for me, I'm positively surprised.
- jmsmistral 11y agoSame issue - bye bye Forbes.
- BatFastard 11y agoI love free content (almost free). And this is the first time I have run into a site where it said "You shall not pass (with you ad blocker turned on)". I like Forbes, and I am willing to give ads a try for a while. Otherwise "freeish" content will be disappearing.
- jjbinx007 11y agoI decided to turn my adblocker off wherein I received the message: "Thank you for turning off your ad blocker! Enjoy Forbes' ad-light experience for 30 days." So what's "ad-light"? Two auto-playing (but volume muted) videos wasting my bandwidth showing some celebrities I've never seen and don't care about, an ad for CCTV cameras (which I've just been searching for), several other banner ads which were not tailored to anything I've previously been looking at, followed by those God-awful clickbait-masquerading-as-news blocks at the bottom of the article. Oh, and the article is artificially split onto 4 pages to keep you clicking and reloading more ads. I'll keep my adblock on next time.