• @[email protected]
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    Yea, same. Ads have gotten so obnoxious to the point where the freaking FBI considers adblock an essential part of proper internet hygiene.

    • @[email protected]
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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.

      • @[email protected]
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        351 year ago

        It’s their prerogative to refuse serving. It’s my prerogative to go somewhere else. Adblocker stays up, sorry.

        • @[email protected]
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          -51 year ago

          And where is that somewhere else? If everyone asks to disable the adblocker, then you’re pretty much denied that info.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        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

      • MrEUser
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        61 year ago

        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.

  • I Cast Fist
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    F12

    • look for the stupid anti adblock div
    • delete
    • if that fails, block more scripts, reload page

    There we go

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      Until you find the one website that only sends the first paragraph of the article until it confirms that ads aren’t blocked 😔

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      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
  • @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    Anyone an Adgaurd user? My favorite is a good old pi-hole on an old Raspberry pi 3, but for software I like it.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Pi-hole on a raspberry pi zero-2 W. The thing I like the most is that you can run it with unbound as an upstream DNS provider, so you can have your own private DNS at home without filtering your traffic to another DNS provider.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    If i decide to, sometimes I’ll block the blocking elements with ublock. Sometimes it breaks the site sometimes it gets you through.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    No one else here use script blocking? Great for selectively disabling external scripts, google analytics, and other trackers, for example.