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I've seen at least 1 website that actually had critical components like parts of the navigation classed as ads, so they had to almost force you to disable it to just use their site.

Imo, if you design your website in such a way where critical basic functionality is classed as ads, then you've built your website wrong. Basic functionality should not be capable of being classed as an ad.

when I see this, I leave.

I leave uBlock off by default and only turn it on for abusive sites, but I also use Vivaldi with tracker blocking enabled so I still get these popups.

It usually ends with me blocking all ads in order to block the popup asking me not to block ads.

I have adblocker solely set up to block Youtube ads.

They broke the implicit contract of "Don't make ads too intrusive and I won't go out of my way to block your revenue". THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD

I’m sorry but advertisements are too often a vehicle for scams and malware. It’s not merely a preference. They pose a very real danger due to a lack of enforcement of good advertising policies and ethics.

If you're seeing these, then you need to change your settings in Ublock Origin to enable more filters. Anti-adblock killer is the filter you want, I believe.

"Turn off your adblocker so we can make your day pop"

No thanks i dont want popup ads

If I ever implant myself with a chip for brain augmentation is going to be an adblock that acts directly on my neocortex. The ultimate block.

If they really wanted me to whitelist them in my adblocker, they'd make the ads less onerous.

I've never seen this. Just checked ZDNet's website and it didn't show anything about my ad blocker.

I block ads because they are such a distraction that I can't read, and because auctioning off arbitrary javascript to the highest bidder is just asking to be hacked. If ads were not animated, and had no external or obfuscated javascript, I might not block them.

But as is, I'd rather close the tab than enable ads.

Usually paper companies trying to play electric games

If it's a site I use regularly, I'll disable ad blocker, especially news. It'd be childish demand people provide me their time, labour and effort for free, especially when the ads cost me nothing.

I do feel guilty sometimes... Then I continue.

Just like I do when I watch the porn the adblocker's help me watch...

Using the "bypass paywalls clean" extension gets rid of most of it. I'm using Firefox.

Those messages do make me feel bad, but not bad enough to turn my ad blocker off.

I'm technically capable of blocking ads but that doesn't mean that I am also morally entitled to access content provided to me on the condition that I will see the ads. I suppose the fact that these websites only ask me to disable my ad blocker rather than refusing me access entirely implies that they give consent for me to keep using the ad blocker, but would I really stop using it if they did refuse access but I could bypass that restriction?

I imagine they're targeted at the relatively technically inept majority.

Interrobang, eh? So classy.

give us money!

Dude, I don't even know you. I'll never be back here again.