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You should be using assassinate-ad-block-blockers instead because anti-adblock-killer is old and ancient and outdated and also broken alongside not getting active support anymore.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
In my experience this doesn’t work most of the time. It will remove the pop-up but the page won’t function. I realise it sometimes has an overlay under the pop-up but upon removing that it removes the content I’m trying to view. Not saying it doesn’t work sometimes but it rarely does for me.
And sometimes it isnt
I just have a adblock block blocker.
Am I just fucked on mobile?
Use Firefox. Add-ons that work for desktop on Firefox also work on mobile.
ff mobile has ublock origin
Not on iOS
Yeah but that’s not FF’s fault.
Cool, so it just means I’m fucked still
Yes
I wish there was a solution on mobile
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.
Yo dawg.
How does an ad give you malware?
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.
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.
Happened to me about 4mins ago
So you started using the internet 5 minutes ago?
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant
Most of the time those articles are bullshit click bait anyway.
“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”
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:
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copy/paste to the browser search box or address bar
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click and drag the now-selected text to the search box or address bar
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right click on the text and ‘search for…’ from context menu
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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.
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.
There is the legend of the adblock-block-blocker
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?
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.
