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Forbes.com (and others) stop on ad blockers now

Ketchup

Ketchup

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I thought this was humorous. Forbes normally does the little wait and then "continue to site" when I go to it from a link, but now it will not go on to the page until I turn off Adguard.

I am only on that site maybe once every couple months, so I don't know how long they have been doing it. But I am seeing a lot of sites point out that I have an ad blocker, so I wonder how long until other sites start doing the same thing.
 
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Ketchup said:
I thought this was humorous. Forbes normally does the little wait and then "continue to site" when I go to it from a link, but now it will not go on to the page until I turn off Adguard.

I am only on that site maybe once every couple months, so I don't know how long they have been doing it. But I am seeing a lot of sites point out that I have an ad blocker, so I wonder how long until other sites start doing the same thing.
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I noticed that too. I just stopped going to Forbes. I don't trust their advertisements enough to turn off my add blocker and I don't want their content enough to be bothered to find another way.
 
I've done the same. If any site doesn't work wth adblock or script blocking in place I just move on. Nothing I can't find elsewhere.
 
Ketchup said:
I thought this was humorous. Forbes normally does the little wait and then "continue to site" when I go to it from a link, but now it will not go on to the page until I turn off Adguard.

I am only on that site maybe once every couple months, so I don't know how long they have been doing it. But I am seeing a lot of sites point out that I have an ad blocker, so I wonder how long until other sites start doing the same thing.
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Strange works fine here.
 
Yeah I don't bother with links to that site anymore.

What sucks is the fact that this is working so well for them, maybe lot of other sites are going to start doing the same. Oh well, they'll just lose lot of traffic if that's the case. I can't imagine anyone running without an adblocker these days unless they just finished formatting and reinstalling and are in the process of setting up everything and just didn't get to it yet.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Yeah I don't bother with links to that site anymore.

What sucks is the fact that this is working so well for them, maybe lot of other sites are going to start doing the same. Oh well, they'll just lose lot of traffic if that's the case. I can't imagine anyone running without an adblocker these days unless they just finished formatting and reinstalling and are in the process of setting up everything and just didn't get to it yet.
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I know a computer tech who says ad blockers slow her browsing speed. I highly disagree.
 
It let me in, and I could read after allowing a couple scripts. I don't frequent the site, and I wouldn't be heartbroken if I never went back.
 
Ketchup said:
I thought this was humorous. Forbes normally does the little wait and then "continue to site" when I go to it from a link, but now it will not go on to the page until I turn off Adguard.

I am only on that site maybe once every couple months, so I don't know how long they have been doing it. But I am seeing a lot of sites point out that I have an ad blocker, so I wonder how long until other sites start doing the same thing.
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I think, it doesn't comply with their level!
Their Continue to site in... annoyed me even before. But now it's terrible 🙁
Don't even want to visit Forbes any more and can't imagine what bring them to such a decision (showing that awful banners)!
 
pcslookout said:
Same here.

Maybe we are blocking the method Forbes uses to block Ad Blockers!
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Could be. For some reason my search the other day pulled up more the one link. First one was fine, second one started the restriction.

If you have an adblocker that doesn't trigger this action after multiple visits, let us know.
 
So I went back today using uBlock, and no matter how many pages I visit, I am not getting blocked .... so far.

If anyone else can confirm, I will update the title.
 
I was about to say, for uBlock Origin, i was able to go to forbes without issue. it gave me the 5 second ad thing and then continue to site.

This was going direct, and not from a link to the site
 
Ketchup said:
So I went back today using uBlock, and no matter how many pages I visit, I am not getting blocked .... so far.

If anyone else can confirm, I will update the title.
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When I went last night I was using Adaway on Android, with uBlock on Firefox. The primary blocker is Adaway using whatever is default plus Fanboys Ultimate list. On Android, I use uBlock mainly for custom blocking, but whatever is default I leave enabled.
 
ABP on IE11, Firefox, and Opera. IE11 loads with no problem, all adds blocked. Firefox, just get a blank page. Opera, I get the disable ABP notice. All load the same with Malwarebytes Premium running or turned off. Not that I care about the site, anyway. Been there maybe once in the last year.
 
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balloonshark said:
Yep, they took a stand on ad blockers and then the ads served up malware to their users...

http://www.extremetech.com/internet...-turn-off-ad-blockers-promptly-serves-malware

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3021113/security/forbes-malware-ad-blocker-advertisements.html
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"Malware?" That word just tells me that their marketing department needs a better PR campaign. It's just trying to improve your web browsing experience!





Ketchup said:
I thought this was humorous. Forbes normally does the little wait and then "continue to site" when I go to it from a link, but now it will not go on to the page until I turn off Adguard.

I am only on that site maybe once every couple months, so I don't know how long they have been doing it. But I am seeing a lot of sites point out that I have an ad blocker, so I wonder how long until other sites start doing the same thing.
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This might now work on Forbes, but I've done this already:

Open
Blockable Items.
Find something like "adblockdetect.js."
Block it. 😀
Refresh.
Be amazed that the developers didn't seem to account for doing that.


(Some sites detect that too, or might be able to tell if you're blocking advertiser cookies.)




I just quick checked Forbes.
They offer an "ad-light experience now."
Faster load time for ads. No auto-play videos. No video ad overlay.
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"Ad-light," or "We're not going to be jerks and blast you with auto-playing audio and slow down everything with 10MB ads being served up from a basement in Uruguay."

Alas, I didn't immediately see any easy way of blocking the adblocker detection. Looks like it's located within scripts/a8393b68.main.js.

...and disabling Adblock doesn't do it. I also had to disable Ghostery, so I guess it checks for a cookie or two to make sure you've swallowed all the necessary pills. Ghostery counted 16 different beacons/widgets/analytics on the site.
 
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