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My process 1. Click Forbes link 2. Get blank page where ad should be and "Continue to site" link 3. Click continue 4. Get request to turn off ad blocker 5. Lau
by georgespencer 11y ago
My process
1. Click Forbes link
2. Get blank page where ad should be and "Continue to site" link
3. Click continue
4. Get request to turn off ad blocker
5. Laugh that I can't remember that Forbes blocks ad blockers
6. Google the headline
7. Read the story someplace else
Hope that helps.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoThis seems like something that could be automated into a browser plugin.
- bduerst 11y agoUse a good news RSS feed to find similar articles. I think there are some that aggregate by story.
- ikeboy 11y agoCopying titles into archive.is works for forbes and wsj.
- mmoche 11y agoMy favorite part of their anti-adblocker approach was when I actually disabled my blocker and ran into a hilarious "ad-light"[0] experience that was so ad-heavy I immediately gave up and found somewhere else to read an article. Countless "sponsored" article links, old-timey banner ads, and 75% of the visible page devoted to items other than content. [0]https://twitter.com/mmoche/status/710167616535531520 https://twitter.com/mmoche/status/710167616535531520
- pkfrank 11y agoI had an identical experience and reaction: https://twitter.com/PeterKimFrank/status/710164166636675072 https://twitter.com/PeterKimFrank/status/710164166636675072
- XCSme 11y agoEvery time I reached the Forbes website I was really wondering if there is any option to hide a website from Google search results. So, I would like to never have any result from forbes.com (even if I search forbes). Do you know if there are Chrome Extensions or settings you can turn on in Google Search to hide certain websites?
- ValentineC 11y agoThere's a Chrome extension (by Google, no less) for this! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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- NathanKP 11y agoThis is the official Google extension for doing that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
- sosuke 11y agoWow! Thank you very much I never thought of looking for an extension. For a very short time I found that feature in my search results directly. Then it just went away.
- dunham 11y agoYeah, Google did that for a short time. I used to use it to filter out content farms. They've gotten better at filtering content farms since then, and dropped the feature - probably because it was too expensive resource-wise to personalize results like that.
- FilterSweep 11y agoNot sure if it's very functional. I blocked W3Schools + Wildcards (because I'd rather read MDN) and after a few months of working their results continued appearing at the top of my page. There are a few blog posts around the net where some users have tried similar and found that W3 schools was also serving up content from another place that had not been blocked.
- cesarb 11y agoMy process 1. Open Forbes link in a new tab 2. Get redirected to completely blank page with only /welcome/ in the URL path 3. Temporarily enabling JavaScript for its domain and reloading won't help, since it lost the original URL and I don't remember where I got the link, so I don't even try 4. Give up and close the tab For most sites where JavaScript is required, temporarily enabling (uBlock origin advanced mode) and reloading is enough. Forbes is the only one I recall which completely loses the URL in the redirect.
- gorhill 11y agoIf you are using uBlock Origin, Forbes' anti-blocker is bypassed with default settings.
- ultramancool 11y agoMy process 1. Install https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer 2. Laugh maniacally.
- TheLogothete 11y agoWhy do you insist to consume content when the publisher tells you they don't want your visit if you don't want their ads?
- ultramancool 11y agoBecause I wanted to see the content? Is that what you're really asking? Am I supposed to feel some kind of moral obligation to see the ads just because they want me to, even if my browser is perfectly capable of blocking them? Sorry, but it's _my_ computer. I control it. Publishers don't get to decide what it does or does not do. I do.
- kodablah 11y agoI think they mean: Why do you want to consume content from companies like that?
- ultramancool 11y agoThe quality of their publishing practice doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the content.
- manigandham 11y agoMoral obligation is the reason to not take/copy other things. This is the same as music/movie piracy. Basically you're doing it because you dont have the legal/physical repercussions of taking other things in life.
- ultramancool 11y ago
- jasonkostempski 11y agoI really want a plug that will let me mark sites like Forbes and then decorate any links to it indicating I've already decided I don't want to go there. This way Forbes doesn't even get a +1 visit from me. I've had this thought several times over the last few months so last night I started work on a Chrome plugin that takes a regex pattern and css styles, finds the pattern in the markup and then applies the css to the first visible element containing the pattern. I'm hoping it will be useful for more than just reminding myself to not click links.
- colinbartlett 11y agoThat would be useful but it almost sounds better to register the view of their landing page and then not register the view of their article. Surely they will see a widening gap over time?
- wrong_variable 11y agostart a github repo - maybe we can help ?
- jasonkostempski 11y agoI will, sometime in the next week, hold me to it. I've actually got something working. So far I've got a hardcoded list of rules and styles and it works, even if the page content changes dynamically. I have to make all changes in code and manually reload the extension every time but it's not bad since I don't need to change things often.
- Nadya 11y ago>I really want a plug that will let me mark sites like Forbes and then decorate any links to it indicating I've already decided I don't want to go there. This way Forbes doesn't even get a +1 visit from me. Host file. forbes.com 127.0.0.1 At home I have a giant list of sites I've blocked for this. #Requests I turn off uBlock. Doing them the courtesy of not giving them any traffic instead.
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- Aelinsaar 11y agoWorks for me too, and I like to add 8.) Reflect for a moment on how much of human endeavor is wasted effort before it even began.
- baldfat 11y agoI use a text command line reader for news and I really have found it makes these things just go away :) I use w3m
- Pxtl 11y agoWhat cheeses me off is that I get blocked from many sites just for using FlashBlock. I'm not blocking all ads, I'm just using a "disable flash by default and enable manually if necessary".
- beagle3 11y agoDoes that still happen? I remember this being the case years ago, but in the last 3, especially since Firefox went "click to flash", I haven't encountered this.
- nashashmi 11y agoI once disabled something in by adblocker that prevented Forbes from knowing I had an adblocker. Basically, you only allow that one adblocker detector to come through. Of course it is not like I remember what it was, but I don't have to bother with Forbes anymore.