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Why do I feel like I'm the only person who uses the Element Zapper tool in uBlock Origin. Just choose the tool and one-click delete any elements you want.
Most of the time the "Adblocker Detected" prompt is an overlay on top of the website, so just zap that out of existence.
In my experience this doesn't work most of the time. It will remove the pop-up but the page won't function. I realise it sometimes has an overlay under the pop-up but upon removing that it removes the content I'm trying to view. Not saying it doesn't work sometimes but it rarely does for me.
Thank you for this.
No problem :)
Also if you use tampermonkey or greasemonkey use Anti-AdBlock Killer by Reek
You should be using assassinate-ad-block-blockers instead because anti-adblock-killer is old and ancient and outdated and also broken alongside not getting active support anymore.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/382482-assassinate-ad-block-blockers/code
I just have a adblock block blocker.
Am I just fucked on mobile?
Use Firefox. Add-ons that work for desktop on Firefox also work on mobile.
Firefox with uBlock - "daily driver" Firefox Focus - just to quick open a link and forget about it not having to close the tab KiwiBrowser - kind of power user browser with all Chrome add-ons available to install, so uBlock and ViolentMonkey work fine.
That tool is so good lmao, also if you're quick you can refresh websites + do a screenshot to get the text before it's blocked out. Ctrl + P works on some sites too if you're quick
You know what the last straw for me was? A few years ago, when people got infected with malware from ads including ads that ran on a Forbes article about malware in ads that you had to disable your adblocker to read.
Yo dawg.
How does an ad give you malware?
Either by linking to malware so you get infected if you click the ad, or by containing malware directly. Ads can contain code, making them almost like small applications that run when loaded.
Ads can contain code, making them almost like small applications that run when loaded.
Which browser in 2023 would dare allow that to run?
The code is JavaScript--an integral part of displaying modern websites. Not since the days before 2001 and very simple browsers like Netscape Navigator 3 and Internet Explorer 3 that didn't yet have javascript. Today that is what adblock is doing - it stops loading untrustworthy or unwanted bits and pieces of code while still giving the end-user (most of) the javascripts they need. Instead of the default action, "ok, gimme the whole webpage code, as-is". That last sentence, that's Chrome. I can explain it some more further. But that's the jist of it.
About a year or two ago I'd open up an article blocked by ad blocker and I'd try tweaking my settings a little, thinking if it were easy, I'd use a bit of effort to get to the writing I wanted to read.
I did that for a while with about a 50/50 chance that one setting or just clicking a few things and I could get to the copy.
Now I don't really care ..... there's a million things to read on the internet ... if I see a site and it even throws up a challenge, an extra click or ad blocker has affected it ... I don't even bother, just close it, forget it and move on.
Or if you don't have an ad blocker running and the site expects you to try to read through a little 1 inch peephole in between the ads. I just write the site off entirely.
It also makes you wonder .... what monster thought that was a good design.
Also equally disturbing is ... that there are actual people out there who put up with all this and read the content through that little peep hole. I know several of my older less tech savvy friends who put up with all that. I also know a few younger tech ignorant friends who just don't care.
I've been known to add them to my hosts file to make sure they get ignored.
What's annoying is when I don't even have an ad blocker. I use ublock origin which blocks privacy invading scripts. Its not my problem that your ads a spyware and sometimes even malware
Nah, ublock origin is absolutely an ad blocker. It can and does do the basics of, "remove annoying DOM element".
Saying it's not an ad blocker is like saying a truck isn't a car (car as in vehicle) because it can tow things, too.
Most of the time those articles are bullshit click bait anyway.
"I'm not that interested"
"This game you like got a good update" okay cool click
"Disable adblocker" okay thanks for the news; I'll just search for the official post on the game company's website.
"Said update just resets all of your opt-outs and forces you to sign a new ToS"
If you're using uBlock Origin, bring up the control panel and disable JavaScript for that webpage. Then reload the page. Works on most of these pages for me.
howtogeek started doing this. Really annoying when you have technical questions you need answered
There's a few trucks you can use to view the article.
You can view the cached version of the site.
You can get there by doing a search under Google and clicking on the ellipses to get to the cached version. Generally this version includes no ads or pop ups.
Alternatively you can inspect the element and delete the offending div/script. But this is more advanced and the results for cached are better in terms of readability.
But generally speaking it's usually best to avoid those dumpster fire websites.
There's a few trucks you can use to view the article.
Toyota trucks are the most efficient for driving to the people responsible for putting ads on your article and convincing them to change their minds.
search and find a different source. there's usually multiple, especially for news (and "news") items.
click and drag over the headline, then do one of these:
copy/paste to the browser search box or address bar
click and drag the now-selected text to the search box or address bar
right click on the text and 'search for.....' from context menu
Serious question... What's the answer to paying for services like this? If everyone adblocks, how can they be sustainable? Will journalism just die because no one wants to pay or see ads?
They could try not putting so many ads you can't fucking read and making sure they don't contain malware. That'd be a start.
A lot of these things are due to the greed of the website owners stuffing as many ads as they possibly can into their sites.
for a while there was a service called Scroll for like $5 a month, you wouldn't see ads and your monthly payment would get divided between all the articles you viewed that month. they were partnered with Firefox and supposedly privacy friendly. they were bought by twitter and essentially killed.
edit: wikipedia
Google "fuck fuck Adblock" (yes, fuck twice)
Y'all need behindtheoverlay https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behind-the-overlay/ljipkdpcjbmhkdjjmbbaggebcednbbme
And ya'll need to stop using chrome.
Duckduckgo is your friend: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/
Don't they store your data?
In the 90s, I started closing any page that had an ad because I had principles. I still close pages that won't let me read with an ad-blocker, but holy shit.
Very early nineties: no ads Mid late nineties: many ads Early 2000's: ad blockers become prevalent 2023: now receive an ad telling us to disable ad blocker so we can view more ads.
We've come full circle. I remember when logging onto the internet was a way to escape the ads that plagued cable and satellite.. now there are more..
