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Every time I use a computer where they don't have adblock, I feel like the days when we installed chrome for those IE users. At the same time, telling someone

Every time I use a computer where they don't have adblock, I feel like the days when we installed chrome for those IE users. At the same time, telling someone who doesn't use adblock to use them feels like telling them to use limewire to download free music. Yes, it's the way to go. But every time it breaks one of their websites I have inadvertently volunteered to become their lifetime tech support.

8organicbits 2y ago
The only time recently that I noticed my ad blocker breaking a website was the UI for adding a DNS glue record on Namecheap. It looked like it was working, but the update didn't take. Their support immediately suggested ad blocker, and that was it. Are others seeing frequent issues where ad blockers break sites?
- jjj123 2y ago
  Stereogum won’t work with ad blockers. The comments section of the Washington post didn’t work with my ad blocker until the last month or so.
- Corrado 2y ago
  It's not frequent, but it does happen, and usually in unexpected ways. If the whole site is completely broken I usually turn off ad-block and everything is fine. The problem is when the site mostly works but doesn't do some little important thing, like save your changes, that it gets really frustrating.
BLKNSLVR 2y ago
I setup a pihole for my parents, and my dad would mention that every now and then a whole website just wouldn't work. I eventually got him to show me an example, and he was clicking on the top google results which, to me, were obviously ads and therefore went through the blocked ad.doubleclick.net domain, but to him they were legitimate search results. It's a reminder of the decades of lessons in cynicism that us tech folk take for granted (and the dim view of the world that these lessons impose on us).
- jaredhallen 2y ago
  This occasionally annoys me. Sometimes I'll actually be searching for a product and see just what I'm looking for in the sponsored results. It doesn't annoy me enough to get rid of the pihole, though.

8organicbits 2y ago

The only time recently that I noticed my ad blocker breaking a website was the UI for adding a DNS glue record on Namecheap. It looked like it was working, but the update didn't take. Their support immediately suggested ad blocker, and that was it. Are others seeing frequent issues where ad blockers break sites?

jjj123 2y ago
Stereogum won’t work with ad blockers. The comments section of the Washington post didn’t work with my ad blocker until the last month or so.
Corrado 2y ago
It's not frequent, but it does happen, and usually in unexpected ways. If the whole site is completely broken I usually turn off ad-block and everything is fine. The problem is when the site mostly works but doesn't do some little important thing, like save your changes, that it gets really frustrating.

BLKNSLVR 2y ago

I setup a pihole for my parents, and my dad would mention that every now and then a whole website just wouldn't work. I eventually got him to show me an example, and he was clicking on the top google results which, to me, were obviously ads and therefore went through the blocked ad.doubleclick.net domain, but to him they were legitimate search results. It's a reminder of the decades of lessons in cynicism that us tech folk take for granted (and the dim view of the world that these lessons impose on us).

jaredhallen 2y ago
This occasionally annoys me. Sometimes I'll actually be searching for a product and see just what I'm looking for in the sponsored results. It doesn't annoy me enough to get rid of the pihole, though.