• H2207@lemmy.world
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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.

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    You know what the last straw for me was? A few years ago, when people got infected with malware from ads including ads that ran on a Forbes article about malware in ads that you had to disable your adblocker to read.

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        Either by linking to malware so you get infected if you click the ad, or by containing malware directly. Ads can contain code, making them almost like small applications that run when loaded.

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          Ads can contain code, making them almost like small applications that run when loaded.

          Which browser in 2023 would dare allow that to run?

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            The code is JavaScript–an integral part of displaying modern websites. Not since the days before 2001 and very simple browsers like Netscape Navigator 3 and Internet Explorer 3 that didn’t yet have javascript. Today that is what adblock is doing - it stops loading untrustworthy or unwanted bits and pieces of code while still giving the end-user (most of) the javascripts they need. Instead of the default action, “ok, gimme the whole webpage code, as-is”. That last sentence, that’s Chrome. I can explain it some more further. But that’s the jist of it.

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    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.

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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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    “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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        Disabling JS doesn’t mean disabling uBlock. I run uBlock together with NoScript on Firefox, and that works really well.

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    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

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    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?

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      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.

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      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

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        I’d happily subscribe to that. Even though I hate subscriptions, I hate ads way more.

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    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.

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      There’s a few trucks you can use to view the article.

      Toyota trucks are the most efficient for driving to the people responsible for putting ads on your article and convincing them to change their minds.