Yea, same. Ads have gotten so obnoxious to the point where the freaking FBI considers adblock an essential part of proper internet hygiene.
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.
It’s their prerogative to refuse serving. It’s my prerogative to go somewhere else. Adblocker stays up, sorry.
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.
If i decide to, sometimes I’ll block the blocking elements with ublock. Sometimes it breaks the site sometimes it gets you through.
F12
- look for the stupid anti adblock div
- delete
- if that fails, block more scripts, reload page
There we go
You can use the element picker in uBlock Origin for this. It works on ~50% of cases.
No one else here use script blocking? Great for selectively disabling external scripts, google analytics, and other trackers, for example.
Adblock detection blocker!
Don’t forget the blocker for adblock detection blocker detection!
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.
