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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

> 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.

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.