Yea, same. Ads have gotten so obnoxious to the point where the freaking FBI considers adblock an essential part of proper internet hygiene.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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And remember, if the page actually had useful content that wasn't click bait or some shit. Be nice... remove the adblocker and reload.
They gotta pay bills too, having infrastructure deployed to serve content is not free. Don't kill their business if they have quality content.
The first time a toxic ad shows up the ad block goes right back up though.
I have no problem paying if I have the option. If they want more than it’s worth, buh bye… If not I’ll pay. What I don’t need is being forced to swallow their pollution to get access to needed information.
If it's an understandable amount of ads, I'll disable ad block. If the site bombards me with an unjustifiable amount of ads (like adblock-tester level of ads) then I'll re enable adblock in seconds. Same goes for if they serve scam ads like those 'virus detected' or 'hot singles in your area' malvertisements
What? There are no horny women dying to know me?
dun dun duuuuunnnnnn Yea, there aren't. Your life is a lie.
It's their prerogative to refuse serving. It's my prerogative to go somewhere else. Adblocker stays up, sorry.
Adblock detection blocker!
Don't forget the blocker for adblock detection blocker detection!
Thats called NO-Script
Unlock can do this sometimes. But other times the website locks the scroll bar and I haven't figured out how to get around that
Press F12 and search for 'buffer overflow', and delete those lines. That should get the scroll working again on most sites.
Just zap it with uBlock
Some websites block off completely when you use adblock.
Then report these to uBlock Origin, but don't forget to enable the annoyance lists before. It only works only on Firefox though because of the Manifest V3 stuff Google did
What if the website has adblock detection blocker detection?
Then you go with an adblock detection blocker detection blocker. Dhu.
NO-Script
False positives across the map! Lets go!
F12
- look for the stupid anti adblock div
- delete
- if that fails, block more scripts, reload page
There we go
my process is:
- click site
- inspect element
- delete
- if that doesn't work go elsewherei have better use of my time then visit a site like that
Until you find the one website that only sends the first paragraph of the article until it confirms that ads aren't blocked 😔
This person adblocks
You can use the element picker in uBlock Origin for this. It works on ~50% of cases.
If i decide to, sometimes I'll block the blocking elements with ublock. Sometimes it breaks the site sometimes it gets you through.
This person adblocks
JavaScript off by default ftw
The web is such a cleaner experience without it! I was using no script to just allow individual scripts for sites that I wanted to function like normal but for 90% of the web I can get by with like no JS.
It did shock me on my initial tour around Lemmy just how many sites want to have JS enabled. Fine now that I've got a 'home instance', and only have to enable that.
If ever this happens, I think of it a challenge. Most of these are easy enough to get around.
If I can't get around it, then I'll bring the issue to the larger ublock origin community.
That's totally me :)
Just use reader mode as a first step
ya no ya no
No one else here use script blocking? Great for selectively disabling external scripts, google analytics, and other trackers, for example.
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