Is there a web adblocker that cant be detected by sites that are having their ads blocked?

[Orionaut]

As above really.

How to block ads so that you do not get nagging/whiney messages from the sites one is trying to visit.

 

[DXP55]

I need one as well

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

I use ublock origin
It has an option to add filters for that
Though it's a running battle
Companies do new stuff so filters need updating

 

[Stoner81]

Another vote for uBlock Origin

Stoner81.

 

[Orionaut]

The silly thing is of course is that if content providers kept it sensible, none of this would be necessary.

A reasonable amount of ads is perfectly acceptable

Reasonable being where the ad content doesn't significantly detract from the site experience or significantly slow down the connection speed.

the problem arises where, unless one actually uses an ad blocker, sites become unusable and even a 40 meg connection slows to a crawl.

Its the same with commercial TV.

Back in the 60s ITV commercial TV ran to about 50 mins/hour of actual programming EG I have a DVD set of start trek TOS. These episodes typically run for around 50 minutes.

Programming today runs as low as 37 minutes/hour (I think it was an episode of Gotham that ran to 37 minutes) Under these circumstances of course people are going to use PVR's and FF through the ads.

The correct reaction to the growing use of ad blockers and PVR's is not more aggressive advertising!

It is to rethink the way ads are being used to make them more acceptable to the public so that they do not mind watching them..

Less is more people, less is more.

 

[hyperseven]

If you don't like the terms of a site then go somewhere else. Why shouldn't they do everything they can to support their business model

 

[Deleted member 68110]

If you don't like the terms of a site then go somewhere else. Why shouldn't they do everything they can to support their business model

Sort of misses the point, no? Your rationale is just as applicable to visitors to those business sites... "Why shouldn't they do everything they can to support their browsing experience?"

 

[hyperseven]

Sort of misses the point, no? Your rationale is just as applicable to visitors to those business sites... "Why shouldn't they do everything they can to support their browsing experience?"

If a website has opted to have ads on its site for whatever reason and has chosen to employ a method to ensure you don't block said ads either comply or sod off somewhere else.

 

[d_brennen]

Pi-hole

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

There's also router based adblocking
Forget what it's called on my dd~wrt router
Has the advantage of all devices getting it that way
Though depends on router support obviously

 

[Deleted member 77746]

If you don't like the terms of a site then go somewhere else. Why shouldn't they do everything they can to support their business model

Because nobody in the right mind sits and watches an ad. Ads are been forced on people. At the end of the day companies should learn to be a company not serve ads to make even more money on top of their operations. If their product is free then they need to learn to put a cost to the product instead! Ads are evil. Scummy.

 

[jpaul]

*REVIVING THIS - for those using ublockO .....*

it's increasingly annoying, where sites do not work correctly due to UblockO black-listing site rules, and, then,
dfificult to determine which rules as are causing the problem, and, maybe, relaxing those. - what's your approach ?

A couple of sites I tried/failed to access today
https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/kn...mortgage-costs-fall-for-buy-to-let-landlords/ this has blurred images because of something on black-list
https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED/comments/av6c70/how_does_oled_deal_with_sd_low_bitrate_content/ functionality to see comments no longer works

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

*REVIVING THIS - for those using ublockO .....*

it's increasingly annoying, where sites do not work correctly due to UblockO black-listing site rules, and, then,
dfificult to determine which rules as are causing the problem, and, maybe, relaxing those. - what's your approach ?

A couple of sites I tried/failed to access today
https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/kn...mortgage-costs-fall-for-buy-to-let-landlords/ this has blurred images because of something on black-list
https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED/comments/av6c70/how_does_oled_deal_with_sd_low_bitrate_content/ functionality to see comments no longer works

both those sites work fine for me
with ublock origin,privacy badger and ghostery all running at once
guess it depends what filter lists you added in ublock

 

[Semple]

Pi-hole

This or adguard. Don't bother faffing with browser extensions. Go straight for blocking DNS queries from known ad sources.

 

[jpaul]

both those sites work fine for me

thanks , very interesting, I see an obscured image on the first site (which I see on a few other sites too)
and, for maybe a week, a view comments button that does nothing, on reddit

 

[MrRockliffe]

The VPN I use, which ad blocking, isn’t detected by any sites that I use. Works a treat on my mobile devices

 

[darael]

thanks , very interesting, I see an obscured image on the first site (which I see on a few other sites too)
and, for maybe a week, a view comments button that does nothing, on reddit

Do you have a lot of lists selected in uBlock? I've found that sites can if you choose too many. Disable the lists one-by-one until you find the culprit.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

thanks , very interesting, I see an obscured image on the first site (which I see on a few other sites too)
and, for maybe a week, a view comments button that does nothing, on reddit

The view comments tab/button also works fine for me
As darael said one option is to remove some filter lists
Though that's not ideal as you are giving up a lot of stuff you do want blocked to
See maybe a few items you don't want blocked
Not on pc right now to check exactly but
Other options are
White list the whole webpage~easy but might show stuff you don't want
Use the built in logger and /or DOM inspector to find the exact elements you want unblocked
Takes more time but gives full control of what you want to see
And if you save it then it's a new custom filter
So next time you visit the site the elements remain unblocked

 

[jpaul]

In the case of the first example, it is actually not the white/black list that is causing the image blocking;

yes - you can disable ublockO for the web-site but that is rather self-defeating, you could, then, have exposed your system.

ublock log would suggest, the site maybe corrupting the images because I did not accept cookies - I had no prompt.
It accessed cookielaw.org, prior to rendering the page( with the failed images )
I do have don't allow popups and dont't allow 3rd party cookies, chrome options, set.

strategy to debug this kind of thing is a pain.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

In the case of the first example, it is actually not the white/black list that is causing the image blocking;

yes - you can disable ublockO for the web-site but that is rather self-defeating, you could, then, have exposed your system.

ublock log would suggest, the site maybe corrupting the images because I did not accept cookies - I had no prompt.
It accessed cookielaw.org, prior to rendering the page( with the failed images )
I do have don't allow popups and dont't allow 3rd party cookies, chrome options, set.

strategy to debug this kind of thing is a pain.

those 2 boxes to the left of the blue power button icon
you can mouse over those to choose allow/block/green/red
make selection then hit refresh see if it does what you want
if that works its way simpler than using the dom inspector to make custom filters