Webpages denying access because ad blocker is enabled...

Thoughts?

Fuck them and their ads

Use adguard

Appreciate that site hosting costs money?

@pajaja do you know the sites that open like 5 other tabs and somehow the actual site you wanted to visit disappears? I mean... WHAT THE FUCK. IF YOU WANT ME TO VISIT YOUR PAGE WHY ARE YOU REDIRECTING ME THROUGH A SNAKE OF 20 ADVERTISING PAGES WHERE I CANT GET BACK TO YOUR SITE WHYYYY ARE PEOPLE RETARDED FUCK THIS WORLD FUCK PEOPLE FUCK THOSE CUNTS WHO CREATE WEBSITES TO EARN MONEY THROUGH ADS!!!!119ELEVEN

I'm fine :)

And stop reading forbes

@alwaysmpe prime95 is a free program and they don't have ads on their site. But they have a donation button. Guess how they survived so long ;)

Just inspect element and delete the overlay div and remove the display:none from the content div

Install Adnauseum

@FMashiro some sites will redirect you to a whole different page if they detect Adblock. I've attempted that and realised that the "overlay" was actually a static background image blurred to look like the page was still behind the "pop up". It wasn't a pop up/overlay.

You need an ad blocker blocker blocker (no kidding, works fine)
https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock...

Don't mind ads. As long as they don't contain malware or track the users!

@linuxxx or slow down your network af because they have ultra fancy 4k shit in there

I'm still not quite sure what my view on ads should be. On the one hand, they're 'financing the internet'. On the other hand, they're annoying and quite often really distracting. For now I'm going with whitelisting sites I deem worthy.

- Have adblocker enabled by default.

- Go to a website.

- Website either has messages in the place of the ads asking you to please turn off adblocker (non-invasive) or have an overlay blocking the content of the page (invasive)

- Nod as you understand keeping websites online costs money and the content producers would like to be paid somehow.

- Disable adblocker, revisit the website as you feel a little better about yourself.

- Toss away your headphones due to a loud video ad set to auto-play. Close the new ad overlays. Realize the article you are trying to read is split in parts divided by distracting ads and when you reach the end you accidentally click on a shitty taboola ad whose css is just like the one for the "read other articles" part.

- Reenable adblock, vow to never visit the website again and hope they go bankrupt.

@linuxxx sooooo... you do mind all ads then? 😑

@nerd-san Nah, can't remember but a few big services I've used used non-tracking ads. I'm very much fine with that!

Close tab -> Carry on.
Problem solved.

I hate that. If a website politely asks me to disable my adblocker, I'll most likely disable it. If it just blocks me from reading the content I'll find another site

I think it's fair, you're making your stance by blocking ads and they're making their stance by blocking you.
You both have to accept it, kinda goes both ways.

I still don't like it but it's fair.

I'm fine with sites that ask me to, and trying to make me feel really bad if I don't, but blocking access is dumb imo.

It's fine, there are more than one place to get your shitty content

I use uMatrix with JS disabled by default. This often leads to the content being readable without any problems. I often don't even notice adblocker blocker.

Close tab. They can die in a fire

i honestly think adblockers hurt site revenue - if everyone used adblockers, we'd start loosing websites

@ParkCity as long as ads possibly hurt me (fishing, malware, mobile data, tracking, etc) I will use adblockers.

@ParkCity Yes, the problem is many sites use extermely obtrusive adverts. A bit new site in my country has 9 different animated adverts all above the fold. So the adblocker serves more as an epilipsy blocker.

or functionality protection - my computer's hardware can barely keep up with one (1) animated ad
@RTRMS

@Raghnaid that is my usual system to hahah

noscript, works pritty well. But some "modern" pages don't survive without JS...

"Welcome to my 'sites I no longer visit' list."

There are ways to keep yourself afloat that don't involve annoying your visitors. Patreon, subscriptions, merch, to name a few.

Sites that refuse to show content with Adblock enabled are like dudes who dump partners if they insist on using a condom. Sorry, I'm not risking cyber-AIDS to look at your page.

Generally I'm ok with ads except for those sites who splits FOUR FUCKING SHORT PARAGRAPHS INTO FOUR FUCKING PAGES BECAUSE FUCKING 80% OF THE SITE CONTAINS HUGE ASS FUCKING ADS!!! THEY MAKE ME GO MENTAL!!! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!

Privately thanks Privoxy + Tor for keeping me sane

For the most part, 100% fair. Ads are the only revenue stream for plenty of websites.

Dont User AdBlock?

A lot of people have said "websites need to make revenue to keep sites running" and I completely agree with this. But have you noticed how smaller, less well known websites will politely ask you to disable Adblock but still allow you to access content and it's generally the very well known websites with thousands of hits every day that will outright block you from accessing their content unless it is off. That's been my experience at least and I think there is a point where it's less about maintaining overhead and more about making money. And generally you can tell the difference.