Anti-Adblock

Is it just me or has the amount of websites using adblock detectors gone up exponentially over the past few months? It seems like everywhere I go now, they're asking if not demanding I turn off adblock. Why do people unironically believe it's possible to make a living off of advertising on the internet?

I just don's visit a website forcing me to disable my adblock

Yea.
I immediately stop visiting these sites.
I honestly wouldn't care if 90% of the web went down.
I support the sites I care about though membership or purchases, not ads.

You'd try and protect any revenue streams you might have.

Doesn't justify it though.

Does annoy me when corporations think they can treat you like you don't have a choice but to take their bullshit

>I immediately stop visiting these sites.
Even the ones that let you click through? I understand Forbes and other shit that makes you turn it off. But there's a bunch of sites like the OI shows where they just ask instead of tell. You're still trading the dozen adds you'd normally see on the site for a single add the first time you go there.

It's only going to get worse now that a DRM api (EME) is part of the web standards.

just disable JavaScript

When will Americans claim the civil right not to be constantly advertised to?

We would not need adblockers if there weren't advertisements on 101% of all web pages.

>installs noscript
>pajeet can't block adblock anymore

member when ads were just a non-intrusive banner on the top/side?

some websites (blogspot for example) don't even show content when scripts are blocked

Weather Channel's ads are quite literally Nigerian Prince-tier aids.

Advertisement still more or less runs entertainment, less and less as time goes, with patreon and stuff like that, but extreme ad counts are how sites ad their profits.

No.
But I do remember popups that popped up more popups when you tried to close them.

Those were the best.

Reminder that by blocking ads you are literally stealing from hardworking people and should be jailed

Jimmy fucking Wales started this bullshit
Should've just thrown in a few ads instead of plastering his ugly mug at the top of every Wikipedia page

It means we are winning.

Anti-adblock went up because adblockers are popular now, even for normies.
uBlock Origin is the 2nd most used Firefox extension now.
I kinda wonder what websites will do when enough people start adblocking.

the trick is not to block the ads but to extract and use their content.

Anti-adblock is futile since there are anti-anti-adblock features in ublock origin.

that means it's a good starting point for baby's first scripting exercises...

SpanishDict.com has one, and I use it for translations while I learn Spanish. I use it a lot so I disabled just to help them out, but as soon as I did and saw what a mess of advertising and crowd it created I turned it back on.

Ads were not bad on websites a decade ago, now they are so intrusive and often carry malicious intent, so even normies are blocking them. It's their own doing, they got too greedy.

Look at Sup Forums now. I NEVER blocked Sup Forums ads, until hiro started with these awful ones. When it was just J-list whatever, let them make some money. Now it's literally bitcoin miners.

No one's forcing you to disable your adblock. If you don't want to disable it then just find another site and stop posting these threads.

OH MY GOD, NO WAY

Yes, lots of websites either splash a page kindly requesting you to disable your adblocker or replace the blocked elements with messages like "We know, ads suck, but please consider buying a subscription to help support us!" or they just flat out refuse to load webpages until the blocker's completely disabled.

I've noticed the former on a lot of porn sites and some tech blogs. The latter is happening on a lot of mainstream publication sites like Forbes and Washington Post.

>CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE THE 1,000,000th VISITOR! CLICK HERE TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!

Are pop-ups really even a thing anymore? I remember them being really big in the late 90s and 2000s but seemed to have died out in favor of more stealthy tactics like trackers and whatnot.

Good, I want those hipsters designing this form-over-functionality shit to lose out on their soy money. News sites have gone from readable, useful walls of text to shit that slips and slides all over the place while choking on styling bullshit with huge letters to make just 2-3 paragraphs look like an entire book. The worst offender to me though is how on most sites now they took away the password confirmation fields on user registration pages, I just imagine some asshole looking at it and trying to think of ways to make the page load faster, and instead of removing useless styling no one cares about they instead tear out something that's important because they don't know any better

I do. I actually do.
And I wish we could go back to this.

I'm disappointed that I can read that in the original voice

Robbing a thief it's not a crime. 99% of the websites that use anti-adblockers are only reposting content, tweaking it here and there and calling it theirs. If a website posts original content and I like it, I will support them without them asking me to do so. Don't come here crying that we're robbing you, your website is anything but special, your content can be found in other 100,000 websites.

If a website doesn't let me see their content with an adblocker then I simply close tab and don't give them any more traffic.

No ads in non-negotiable.

I will stop "stealing" when those websites stop serving me malware in their ads.

>over the past few months
Try years slowpoke and its mostly due to this . More and more people caught on to the point where even the computer illiterates can know about adblocking. Its a game of cat and mouse and eventually something has got to give.