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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.
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You should be using assassinate-ad-block-blockers instead because anti-adblock-killer is old and ancient and outdated and also broken alongside not getting active support anymore.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
TY!
Thanks, kind stranger!
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
Am I just fucked on mobile?
ff mobile has ublock origin
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.
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.
First sentence in the description:
uBlock Origin is not an "ad blocker", it's a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.
That like saying a road is for cars. When you can drive your truck and motorcycle on it. (to use your analogy) A road and uBlock can do other things than the one they do the most.
Most of the time those articles are bullshit click bait anyway.
There is the legend of the adblock-block-blocker
But then that would be countered by the adblock-block-blocker ², also known as WEI.
"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"
Happened to me about 4mins ago
So you started using the internet 5 minutes ago?
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant
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.
But then I have to look at ads. I think the point OP was trying to make was that they were initially interested enough to click, saw that they would have to view an ad, and are no longer interested because of that.
Disabling JS doesn't mean disabling uBlock. I run uBlock together with NoScript on Firefox, and that works really well.
Same with articles asking for sub fees. Nah.
Many articles on my country stars with "This/These/Those are...." all of them are a pure click bait. I've trained myself to avoid any article where the subject of interest is not in the header. I know they have no good content.
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
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.
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
I'd happily subscribe to that. Even though I hate subscriptions, I hate ads way more.
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..
We already have a perfectly good squidward meme for this.