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I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won'
by erikb 11y ago
I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.
- beedogs 11y agoYep, looks like they've started doing it. There was a discussion about their adwall plans last week.
- eddyg 11y agoAnd of course the reaction was the Anti-Adblock Killer (AAK) list, which you can subscribe to in the blocker of your choice: http://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/ http://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/
- wdmeldon 11y agoYup. Tried for a few seconds to add a custom blocking rule and then immediately left the page. I empathize with content creators, but this reeks of desperation.
- cglace 11y agoI don't know. I took the two seconds to unblock them. How would you have implemented it to look less desperate?
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- doodpants 11y agoUsing Firefox, I just reloaded the page and then hit the Reader View button before the popup came back.
- erikb 11y agoAlso a great idea! Seldom used that feature until now.
- cottonseed 11y agoSame here, and same here.
- mchmr 11y agoIt seems to be javascript. Disabling 1st-party scripts in uBlock Origin got rid of it for me.
- e40 11y agoDisabling 1st-party scripts in uBlock Origin got rid of it for me. I can't find this option. Where is it?
- ccozan 11y agoit is actually uMatrix. I can conform that it works.
- mchmr 11y agoIf you open up add-ons find uBlock Origin, press the "go to dashboard" button the first page has a bunch of checkboxes. At the bottom of the first group there is a check box called "I am an advanced user ..." Check that and now you have a mini uMatrix in your uBlock Origin menu. Global block/allow is the left column, local (to the current domain) block/allow is the right column. I always globally block 3rd party scripts and frames and locally allow things like ajax.google.com when sites are borked. Apparently now I need to start locally blocking 1st party scripts on sites too because of shenanigans like this.
- arijun 11y agoI think it's their prerogative to say "either get served ads, become a paying member, or leave." I imagine they wont mourn the loss of someone who would have likely not brought them revenue in any form, ever.
- arijun 11y agoThat came off reading much more judgy than I had intended. I meant it's their prerogative in the same sense that serving the ads in first place was their prerogative, not that there is a moral imperative to listen when they do.
- Symmetry 11y agoPart of the reason I use Addblock rather than another plugin is that I agree with their whole "acceptable adds" idea and I'm perfectly happy with adds if they aren't too annoying. But I wonder how many companies actually use that program?
- erikb 11y agoYeah. That's what I mean. People leave, they have no viewers anymore, everybody happy.
- arijun 11y agoIf you have uBlock, advanced mode can block the script that puts up the adwall. Just click off the allowance of 3rd party scripts for the page.
- erikb 11y agoThanks I'll try that one!
- skoczymroczny 11y agoNo problem here, using Chrome + Ublock Origin