I’ll Disable My Ad Blocker When You Stop Exploiting Me

TYLER|REGAS|COM ^ | December 26, 2016 | Tyler Regas

[stylin19a]

we all do it...he talks about the “internet” when he means the WWW.

[Drago]

And Brave adds a new revenue generation model in lieu of ads for content providers...a “pay per view” model. Hope JimRob takes advantage of it (extra revenue for FR).

https://brave.com/about/

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/

[Defiant]

Won’t click on Daily Caller, Business Insider, Washington Times and many others who are obnoxious about their efforts to get you to disable your ad blocker. I can get my info elsewhere. If you business model requires those ads, you are going to die out.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I use Adblock and Ghostry. Adblock captured 20 ads, while Ghostry captured an additional combination of 21 trackers and ads — at the same time! Truly insane.

[Hugin]

I have no burning need to read anyone’s content. If they just had static ads I wouldn’t care, but I got tired of videos popping up and running by themselves, clickbait ads blocking the article etc. so I installed adblock. If they don’t want me to read without putting up with all that fine. I won’t read their articles.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

See Reply #21.

[SpaceBar]

Cumulus media recently implemented a mandatory registration/login to listen to their streaming content. This affects people who like to listen to their affiliated AM radio stations on the net. Inconvenient and invasive since one has to listen through all the advertising content anyway which is their bread and butter. I suppose contact info gives them something else to sell.

[caww]

.....”I refuse to disable and just make a search for the same story at other sites”...

Exactly what I do as well....I just highlight the title and paste.....always plenty other sites carrying the article.

[Seruzawa]

What amuses me is when I get ads for the thing I just bought.

No I don’t need another Ibanez SG. No I don’t need another RCA tablet. Lol.

[kearnyirish2]

I get ads for things I look up for a pricing reference when I sell them online; they are trying to sell me something I’m trying to sell myself.

[nevadapatriot]

>I use AdBlock Plus and Ghostery both turned up full blast.

>Another ‘blocker’ I find most useful is Reader View which takes the web site and turns it into very readable text while eliminating all the ads, autostart videos and other garbage that detracts from the web site. I really appreciate it. It is available is a browser plug-in.

Another option for those that run Linux is to install Links text browser in graphic mode, shows all the graphics and no nagging ads, also good for paywalled sites. It is fork of the original Lynx text browser which did not do graphics. Browsers like this are good if wanting to view notorious adware/malware websites with no risk.

[McGruff]

I just switched from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin and it works on https://www.washingtontimes.com/ where Adblock didn’t.

I’ll do some more testing.

[Tallguy]

Thanks for the tip. Coincidentally I followed a FreeRepublic link to a story just yesterday, and the Forbes.com site picked up TouchBlocker VPN on my iPad. I had to read that very b*tch article by Forbes. Anyway, TouchBlocker was a little too finicky for my version of iOS, so I just tried Ghostery. Works great and Forbes doesn’t detect it.

[i_robot73]

>Thanks I just added Ublock. It works great!!

Add in ~$50 Pi running Pi-hole and be amazed.

Finding the right ‘balance’ of block vs. not to even get the ‘smart’ TV to work correctly

[raiderboy]

Good job Ill try that!!

[RetiredTexasVet]

I use an ad blocker because so many sites have so many ads that the site is un-viewable without one. If they require me to disable the ad blocker I just ignore it and just leave the site .... probably not worth the effort anyway.

[EinNYC]

There are several websites that block my access if I don’t remove my adblocker, such as Business Insider. So, I don’t patronize those sites any more. I don’t need any malware, thank you.

[Chickensoup]

glad to hear it. I have been using it for a number of yeats. top notch.

[Bikkuri]

I believe uMatrix would completely block that.. It also has a user friendly UI that you can individually choose what to block and what to keep (it gives a detailed list of everything on the page you are on).

I am using Adblock Plus, Ghostery, uBlock (Origin), Privacy Badger, Adaware Ad Block, and uMatrix.

I rarely have any issues ;^)

[LostInBayport]

Thank you! I have just gone and added uMatrix. I will probably look into the other ones you mentioned that I don’t already use. Can’t have enough ad-block!