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So many sites now won't serve you content unless you turn off the ad-blocker. I have done so for those sites, but now I'm thinking of just boycotting those site
by hellofunk 10y ago
So many sites now won't serve you content unless you turn off the ad-blocker. I have done so for those sites, but now I'm thinking of just boycotting those sites. CBS News is one of them, and I think it is a bit insulting to tell users not to protect their computer when they visit your website.
- douche 10y agoIf a site is obnoxious enough to block you for ad-blocking, the chance that they actually have compelling, unique content is close to 0%. Most of the worst offenders are content farms and plagiarist shops.
- waterphone 10y agoBlocking them entirely is fair, and I do so in many cases to avoid accidentally going there anymore, but you can also use uBlock Origin as your adblocker and turn on the Adblock Warning Removal List and Anti-Adblock Killer filter lists, which will eliminate most of these ridiculous scripts. Sometimes so many sites in a short time add those adblocker-blocker scripts that it takes a little time for the lists to catch up, but overall it does such a good job that when people started complaining about such things earlier this year I had no idea what they were talking about because it had invisibly blocked everything for me so far.
- hellofunk 10y agoGreat tip about uBlock Origin. I am using ABP and it didn't do that, but now both are running together, actually. What's strange is that the number of ads they claim to block is different with each.
- waterphone 10y agoThey have different filter lists and can both be further customized as well, so it's not surprising that they block different things.