i hate the pop ups asking about your experience of the site when you have only been it 2 seconds![]()
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i hate the pop ups asking about your experience of the site when you have only been it 2 seconds![]()
Me too.
I think it's quite legitimate for sites to either block adblockers or push towards a subscription. After all, content isn't usually free to create so has to be paid for. However, if the site content is worth it, I will pay a subscription, but if they block adblockers, I will manage without the site. There aren't many sites I want badly enough to be willing to pay a subscription.
At the moment. But it's an arms race, with advertisers trying to defeat blockers, and blockers trying to defeat anti-blocking steps. Once any given solution gets enough users to make a difference, it becomes a target for defeating by the other side. Ad nauseum.safari and Adguard browser extension is a perfect combo.
I use blockers. On principle, for a few sites I'd cheerfully pay for no-ad access. But most sites I don't want access to badly enough to be prepared to put up with either pop-ups, or visually intrusive ads, especially those with either distracting animation or intrusive sound. There's an etiquette involved, and if advertising gets too intrusive, I'd rather just avoid the site altogether.
Many of them are JavaScript based so just turning that off can help. Obviously it's not much use for some things as it breaks a lot of web pages, but it does get past many of the "pay us now you've read x pages" ones.
My main reason, that and I hate flashing adverts and adverts that are made to look like actual content on the site.I actually try to avoid blocking ads, etc. to much, but way to many pages of late are just ridiculously loaded up with them to the point performance and/or navigation suffers if you don't block a certain amount![]()
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e.g. Forbes won't let you access their site. The Guardian tries to guilt you into paying, etc.
Forbes and the Guardian(?) have stopped me reading their sites because of my adblocker. ...
Wonder if pi-hole can block them.
https://pi-hole.net/[url][/QUOTE] ...lex filtering in JavaScript and the HTML DOM.
Forbes and the Guardian(?) have stopped me reading their sites because of my adblocker.
Guess I'll just not go there anymore.
Your move Forbes.
They are looking to enforce the disabling of adblockers on our news websites to increase saleable traffic. Ie "disable your ad blocker to continue to the site". I think a more polite "please disable your ad blocker because ads pay for the content you like to read: no ads, no content"
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