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I've seen a lot of sites recently that either work around my ad blocker to still load ads or else pop up some other annoyance (e.g. Bloomberg). I'm starting to

I've seen a lot of sites recently that either work around my ad blocker to still load ads or else pop up some other annoyance (e.g. Bloomberg). I'm starting to think about going back to noscript and just selectively enabling things.

waterphone 10y ago
https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer (if you use uBlock Origin, you can turn this on with just a checkbox)
- 21 10y ago
  So then the question is, why is that not checked by default. I made my intention clear by installing the ad-blocker.
  - waterphone 10y ago
    It's only recently started to become a major issue. Perhaps it has been enabled by default more recently, I'm not sure—when I first installed it some time ago, I believe I enabled it manually as part of the setup process.
  - angry-hacker 10y ago
    Because it's not always reliable and can cause things not working properly. It's really easy to create ad block killers/popup modals etc. It's just that lately site owners have began fighting back. It's really interesting where it leads us, site owners and more importantly ad networks have been lazy trying to defeat adblock. Let the war behin I guess.
- elcapitan 10y ago
  This made my day, thanks. I had to update my filter lists so that it retrieves the blocklist for that feature btw.
chris_wot 10y ago
It would be great to have a service that looks at a website's DOM structure, then you download some rewrite rules and you literally only download content. Makes me wish you could go to HTTP and say: give me only the div's with the attribute "name" that equals "header" and "body" and all img tags with class "illustration".
- angry-hacker 10y ago
  Readability?
brainfire 10y ago
I add the entire domain of those sites to my blacklist and never look back. I don't have the time to deal with websites where the operator considers the actual content to be secondary.

waterphone 10y ago

https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer (if you use uBlock Origin, you can turn this on with just a checkbox)

21 10y ago
So then the question is, why is that not checked by default. I made my intention clear by installing the ad-blocker.
- waterphone 10y ago
  It's only recently started to become a major issue. Perhaps it has been enabled by default more recently, I'm not sure—when I first installed it some time ago, I believe I enabled it manually as part of the setup process.
- angry-hacker 10y ago
  Because it's not always reliable and can cause things not working properly. It's really easy to create ad block killers/popup modals etc. It's just that lately site owners have began fighting back. It's really interesting where it leads us, site owners and more importantly ad networks have been lazy trying to defeat adblock. Let the war behin I guess.
elcapitan 10y ago
This made my day, thanks. I had to update my filter lists so that it retrieves the blocklist for that feature btw.

chris_wot 10y ago

It would be great to have a service that looks at a website's DOM structure, then you download some rewrite rules and you literally only download content. Makes me wish you could go to HTTP and say: give me only the div's with the attribute "name" that equals "header" and "body" and all img tags with class "illustration".

angry-hacker 10y ago
Readability?

brainfire 10y ago

I add the entire domain of those sites to my blacklist and never look back. I don't have the time to deal with websites where the operator considers the actual content to be secondary.