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> We noticed that you're using an ad blocker, which may adversely affect the performance and content on Bloomberg.com. For the best experience, please whitelist
by monochromatic 10y ago
> We noticed that you're using an ad blocker, which may adversely affect the performance and content on Bloomberg.com. For the best experience, please whitelist the site.
Actually, it speeds up performance and makes the content easier to read by removing distractions. Thanks for your concern though.
- raverbashing 10y agoComing from a site with an obnoxious auto playing video that's really ironic
- forrestthewoods 10y agoIt's not an ad blocker, it's malware protection.
- monochromatic 10y agoExactly. I can live with advertising. I can't live with advertisers who think they own my computer.
- intopieces 10y agoI recently discovered a master list of sites to block at the host level. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ I still use UBlock Origin, but it doesn't seem to do much anymore. The Internet is way better like this.
- matthiasb 10y agoI am not using an ad blocker but I still got that message... slowing performance and making my experience worse ;-(
- brown9-2 10y agoSame, but I imagine it's because I have plugins disabled.
- jschwartzi 10y agoNeither am I, though I am finding that that message makes it easier to not read any Bloomberg articles.
- jimbo999 10y agoAre you accessing the internet via a corporate, institutional, governmental connection or vpn?
- solaarphunk 10y agoProtip: Ad-block the Ad-blocker Container.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoNoScript is blocking their little popup on mine as intended. :)
- parennoob 10y agoWhenever I see this sort of thing, I click the "Close" button on the tab instead of "Continue" (even though I may read the article later) because I don't want their analytics to think this is an acceptable practice. The number of time when I don't read the article later has slowly begun to increase :)
- adrianlmm 10y agoThat's why I love IE11 build in add blocker, never gets detected.
- allthetime 10y agoIt's not actually blocking the requests then. Bloomberg knows you are using a proper adblocker because it intentionally serves you some script that will be blocked and checks for the existence of it once the page is loaded. I
- adrianlmm 10y agohttp://imgur.com/zdI2jkZ http://imgur.com/zdI2jkZ I don't know about that, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't downloaded them.
- a3n 10y agoI guess it depends on who's performance they're talking about.
- tobltobs 10y agoI still don't understand this need to tell everybody that you are using an adblocker.