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 @thomasfuchs meanwhile two of mineโฆ Edith says: This is kinda blowing up and many ask how this is done. See https://social.tchncs.de/@bekopharm/111082075749714822 for an explanation. See https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/#resources for project details. @bekopharm @thomasfuchs Out of curiosity, how does it work? Does the ad blocker detect this message as an ad and block it or is it actually detecting it somehow?   @bekopharm I took your idea and turned it in to a module for the Silverstripe framework/CMS ๐ Thanks! @bekopharm @stefan Fair, but you introduced me to the idea... ๐ (And I'm ashamed I never thought of it myself before)  @thomasfuchs Has anyone noticed that anti-adblock things that look like that are increasingly common? I see them on How-To-Geek now, along with a couple tech news websites, and they all look weirdly similar. Iโve found reader mode bypasses them for the time being though. They probably all use the same adblocker-detection plugin instead of writing their own text, so that's why they look simular. :)   @thomasfuchs Great answers! I get similar messages a lot, but I donสผt block ads, they do! I only block trackers, and if by doing so, no ads are displayed, then they are the stupid ones doing themselves out of income! Just btw, I have nothing against ads. But almost all ad networks do way more than show ads, often the ads are just a byproduct of incessant tracking and data gathering. Combined with inefficient and insecure implementation and fueled by a death spiral of websites trying to outcompete each other on the most gross content. @thomasfuchs EXACTLY! Well, I don't exactly like ads but I would be willing to tolerate them as a condition of free content if the current ad delivery systems weren't inherent security threats.  @Cloudscout @thomasfuchs And if the sites showed just a little restraint. Our local community site has more ads than content with animations everywhere. @thomasfuchs ads started off like traditional billboards. Then marketers started abusing more and more technology to chase after a gross โwe will build personas on everyoneโ goal. People are done with being tracked and manipulated online. @nicholashead @thomasfuchs For over a 100 years ads didn't have animations. And worked perfectly. Now they are color explosions and constantly flickering which makes reading the article some kind of high power mind game, which is almost unsolvable. Especially animations are the dumbest idea ad agencies ever had. They make using an ad blocker mandatory. @thomasfuchs @nicholashead Was more thinking of magazines, the paper-internet before the real internet. @recker5 @nicholashead Fair enough! Thereโs was some attempts at interactivity with magazine ads, for example flexidisk records and scratchโnโsniff but it was relatively rare and mostly gimmicky @thomasfuchs @nicholashead I just can't read anything if there's a dancing monkey on the left and the right that explodes every 2 seconds.  AdNauseam is a nice FF-Extension which you can set to hide and click ads. And you can differentiate between tracking/non-tracking ads so you can allow non-tracking and 'punish' the tracking one (if desired).  @thomasfuchs @thomasfuchs I heard consumer advocate Clark Howard on his radio show raging about Doubleclick's cross-site tracking cookies, and telling how to opt out on Doubleclick's site, in the year 1997. I presume there's no opting out now. The WWW has been this way just about from the start.  @thomasfuchs ADs are good : It boosts the RAM of your computer up to 128GB and your processor is upgraded to i9 in matter of seconds ๐คท  @thomasfuchs Malicious ads are so common, and seldom dealt with, one has to wonder if most ad companies are willfully working with criminals.  @thomasfuchs #4 is the non-negotiable for me. Don't like the rest, but as long as ads can be used to distribute malware, sayonara! @negativeprimes yeah, itโs the one reason why even people who donโt care to get tracked or have slow browsing should always block ads  6. No videos covering the screen and eating my data @thomasfuchs โracing to the clickbait bottomโ isnโt just an existential threat to publishers, the internet itself is a threat to most media retail. Itโs nothing less than the spirit of the library having a terrible vengeance on the spirit of the broadcast.  @thomasfuchs how has nobody other than me noticed the typo of "button" as "bottom" because it would make an extremely good joke @thomasfuchs Also, to almost every commercial entity on the internet; the internet was not made for you. @thomasfuchs I fail to understand why people who put ads on websites that pop up and cover the content I am trying to read with either a static ad or worse, a video, do not themselves understand that when this happens the only thing I want is to make that fucking ad go away and I will never ever in my life buy anything that is advertised thusly. |
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