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I miss the days when barely anybody blocked ads. Those of us who did didn't have to worry with defeating anti ad block systems.

gjsman-1000 7y ago
uBlock Origin is shockingly competent at defeating those "please turn off your adblocker" warnings.
- sp332 7y ago
  Is this with default settings, or did you add another filter list for those?
- Karunamon 7y ago
  On most sites, at least. There are a few out there that go well out of their way to be annoying. Facebook likes to construct their ad text out of multiple randomly-named divs. TVTropes uses randomized IDs on their ad popover.
  - boring_twenties 7y ago
    They seem to do this for more than just straight ads. I use uBlock Origin to filter out the "Stories" div. It comes back every week or two.
- bilegeek 7y ago
  And if uBO doesn't cut the mustard, you can set up Nano Defender to work in tandem detecting this stuff, though it is a manual setup. Though I personally can't tell how effective it is, since I also run Bypass-Paywalls and uMatrix, so I don't know how much credit to give to those extensions.
- asdff 7y ago
  Sometimes it breaks a site and needs fine tuning of the settings, but its easy enough, and I've never found an ad or paywall or cookie popup or anything that I couldn't zap away.
kemotep 7y ago
Before I used an ad blocker I encountered a lot of malvertisting[0]. Now that I use an ad blocker and set it them up for friends and family random virus attacks, bluescreens, and other types of issues are a thing of the past. I understand not all advertising agencies are responsible for this behavior but when these types of attacks can occur on mainstream websites such as Forbes[1], I frankly cannot trust any ad network to not infect my computer. [0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising [1]:https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say-block-that-malware/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-sa...
- asdff 7y ago
  I'd take the little minigame ads that gave you a virus over the blatant propaganda that appears today, to be honest.
joe_the_user 7y ago
The only blocking I do is turning off video autoplay in firefox (that sites like Tumbler somehow get around). Yet the Washington Post blocks me as using an ad-blocker, possibly because I'm using Linux, possibly because of no autoplay. But altogether, it seems like anit-adblock efforts are going to start having more and more collateral damage.

gjsman-1000 7y ago

uBlock Origin is shockingly competent at defeating those "please turn off your adblocker" warnings.

sp332 7y ago
Is this with default settings, or did you add another filter list for those?
Karunamon 7y ago
On most sites, at least. There are a few out there that go well out of their way to be annoying. Facebook likes to construct their ad text out of multiple randomly-named divs. TVTropes uses randomized IDs on their ad popover.
- boring_twenties 7y ago
  They seem to do this for more than just straight ads. I use uBlock Origin to filter out the "Stories" div. It comes back every week or two.
bilegeek 7y ago
And if uBO doesn't cut the mustard, you can set up Nano Defender to work in tandem detecting this stuff, though it is a manual setup. Though I personally can't tell how effective it is, since I also run Bypass-Paywalls and uMatrix, so I don't know how much credit to give to those extensions.
asdff 7y ago
Sometimes it breaks a site and needs fine tuning of the settings, but its easy enough, and I've never found an ad or paywall or cookie popup or anything that I couldn't zap away.

kemotep 7y ago

Before I used an ad blocker I encountered a lot of malvertisting[0]. Now that I use an ad blocker and set it them up for friends and family random virus attacks, bluescreens, and other types of issues are a thing of the past. I understand not all advertising agencies are responsible for this behavior but when these types of attacks can occur on mainstream websites such as Forbes[1], I frankly cannot trust any ad network to not infect my computer. [0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising [1]:https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say-block-that-malware/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-sa...

asdff 7y ago
I'd take the little minigame ads that gave you a virus over the blatant propaganda that appears today, to be honest.

joe_the_user 7y ago

The only blocking I do is turning off video autoplay in firefox (that sites like Tumbler somehow get around). Yet the Washington Post blocks me as using an ad-blocker, possibly because I'm using Linux, possibly because of no autoplay. But altogether, it seems like anit-adblock efforts are going to start having more and more collateral damage.