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Bloomberg now has an adblock detector, although it incorrectly triggered on mobile chrome which doesn't even have adblockers.

by ikeboy 10y ago

waterphone 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. The dishonesty of it saying that the adblocker will ("may") negatively affect the performance of the site, when it's in fact blocking an absurd number of requests unnecessary to the content people actually want to see, is astounding.
- ikeboy 10y ago
  Eh, plenty of sites have broken on umatrix for me, and I need to go in and whitelist certain servers. Bloomberg for instance I needed to whitelist alternate bloomberg domains and disqus for comments.
  - waterphone 10y ago
    uMatrix isn't a typical consumer-friendly adblocker, it's a general purpose request blocker and explicitly warns that it will break many things. uBlock, AdBlock, etc., will generally not. Certain things do still break occasionally, but it's pretty rare and usually it's on a site that I don't actually care about. Disqus comments are blocked deliberately by most tracking blockers because Disqus tracks user behavior and discloses their data to third parties.
  - chris_wot 10y ago
    Which servers? And why should Bloomberg break if you block servers on different domains?
    - ikeboy 10y ago
      bbthat.com, bwbx.io. Both owned by bloomberg, and I've had articles break without them. Many other sites have cdns with different domains.
- joepvd 10y ago
  To be honest, the what of the performance has not been specified. I take it to mean the add impression performance.
- sib 10y ago
  You're assuming they mean "speed-of-rendering performance" when in fact they mean "revenue-generating performance" /s
- redrummr 10y ago
  Maybe they mean, less ad impressions => less revenue => dwindling IT budget => slower server?
  - ikeboy 10y ago
    Or "we might start blocking ad blockers, in which case you won't be able to see it, so your performance may suffer"
    - waterphone 10y ago
      At which point I decide whether I want to block their site entirely or block their ad blocker blocker.
smelendez 10y ago
It just seems to generate a lot of false positives in general. I've seen it on desktop (OS X) Chrome too, with no ad blocker installed. As far as I can tell, it fires incorrectly when the page is loading slow for whatever reason (and presumably some external JavaScript doesn't get loaded fast enough to disable it).

Bloomberg now has an adblock detector, although it incorrectly triggered on mobile chrome which doesn't even have adblockers.

by ikeboy 10y ago

Bloomberg now has an adblock detector, although it incorrectly triggered on mobile chrome which doesn't even have adblockers.

waterphone 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. The dishonesty of it saying that the adblocker will ("may") negatively affect the performance of the site, when it's in fact blocking an absurd number of requests unnecessary to the content people actually want to see, is astounding.

ikeboy 10y ago
Eh, plenty of sites have broken on umatrix for me, and I need to go in and whitelist certain servers. Bloomberg for instance I needed to whitelist alternate bloomberg domains and disqus for comments.
- waterphone 10y ago
  uMatrix isn't a typical consumer-friendly adblocker, it's a general purpose request blocker and explicitly warns that it will break many things. uBlock, AdBlock, etc., will generally not. Certain things do still break occasionally, but it's pretty rare and usually it's on a site that I don't actually care about. Disqus comments are blocked deliberately by most tracking blockers because Disqus tracks user behavior and discloses their data to third parties.
- chris_wot 10y ago
  Which servers? And why should Bloomberg break if you block servers on different domains?
  - ikeboy 10y ago
    bbthat.com, bwbx.io. Both owned by bloomberg, and I've had articles break without them. Many other sites have cdns with different domains.
joepvd 10y ago
To be honest, the what of the performance has not been specified. I take it to mean the add impression performance.
sib 10y ago
You're assuming they mean "speed-of-rendering performance" when in fact they mean "revenue-generating performance" /s
redrummr 10y ago
Maybe they mean, less ad impressions => less revenue => dwindling IT budget => slower server?
- ikeboy 10y ago
  Or "we might start blocking ad blockers, in which case you won't be able to see it, so your performance may suffer"
  - waterphone 10y ago
    At which point I decide whether I want to block their site entirely or block their ad blocker blocker.

smelendez 10y ago

It just seems to generate a lot of false positives in general. I've seen it on desktop (OS X) Chrome too, with no ad blocker installed. As far as I can tell, it fires incorrectly when the page is loading slow for whatever reason (and presumably some external JavaScript doesn't get loaded fast enough to disable it).