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What do you do about sites that sense your adblocker?

Charmonium

Charmonium

Lifer
So, what do you do about sites that sense your adblocker plugin and then either slap a banner across the page or set a timer? Can't plug-ins download the ads and just not show them?

BTW, I did a search on adblocker through google on this site and adblocker topics seem to show up with equal frequency here and Software for Windows. I guess that means that we don't have a category for browser plugins. Anyway, please move if there is a more appropriate subforum.
 
Sometimes I try the site using a non-adblock browser and if the ads are unobtrusive I add it to the whitelist, assuming it's a site I will visit again. Sometimes I just block the entire site for being snooty.
 
If it's a timer I just read one of the other tabs I've opened, then come back. If it's Forbes then I don't click in the first place, because I already know they don't want me to read their shit.
 
I just exit and don't bother. Same with sites that have those stupid gray out modals. If the adblock makers can find a way to block those things that would be awesome. So far Forbes is the only one I personally have run into that does that. The downside is the fact that ad blockers are detectable in first place, this means more and more sites are going to start doing this. I guess ad blockers will just have to adapt to twart whatever it is these sites do to detect them.
 
Ruptga said:
If it's a timer I just read one of the other tabs I've opened, then come back. If it's Forbes then I don't click in the first place, because I already know they don't want me to read their shit.
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You don't want to look at their shit so why should they want you to look at their shit?
 
On similar note, I tried Forbes with Lynx once for fun and it acted really weird. While it sorta seemed to work, it actually popped up a download dialog, right from within the console session. No idea why or how it does that, but I definitely shut that shit down before I get infected with something.

It does make me wonder though if some primitive raw http method could be used to scrape these sites and republish the info on an alternate site. Could even use an algorithim to "rewrite" the articles in different words so that any copyright detection bots that check the internet don't find it right away.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I just exit and don't bother. Same with sites that have those stupid gray out modals. If the adblock makers can find a way to block those things that would be awesome. So far Forbes is the only one I personally have run into that does that. The downside is the fact that ad blockers are detectable in first place, this means more and more sites are going to start doing this. I guess ad blockers will just have to adapt to twart whatever it is these sites do to detect them.
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my guess is that the adblocker prevents the browser from downloading anything from that site. If so, the only way around it is to dl the ad and just not show it.

But this would mean there is communication between the site and at least one of the advertisers. I doubt it would be all of them.
 
I stop going to those sites. The only exception I make is for Bloomberg and its timer. But I'll stop going there too if it becomes bigger hassle.
 
I click that X button on my tab immediately. Though seems logical that those sites would eventually tone that stuff down but maybe there are plenty of people out there that will actually turn their adblocker off.
 
I've been noticing this more and more. Usually, it's not hard to thwart.

Wired though, I was trying to read an article and had to constantly reload it and scroll quickly. Apparently they have it set up so after scrolling so much, it pops up. Annoying as hell.

And yeah, it's just going to cause me to stop visiting the sites, not whitelist them. They should understand that the people with adblockers aren't the people clicking on the ads in the first place.
 
Charmonium said:
BTW, I did a search on adblocker through google on this site and adblocker topics seem to show up with equal frequency here and Software for Windows. I guess that means that we don't have a category for browser plugins. Anyway, please move if there is a more appropriate subforum.
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Extensions are by definition an extension of a piece of software...in this case a browser...so the logical choice for discussion involving them would be the Software for Windows subforum. This would also be the case for extensions with different titles...addons...plugins...etc...etc.

Unless the extension/browser being used is in a different OS...then the discussion should go in the appropriate subforum for that OS (ie. *nix Software or All Things Apple).
 
I leave. I really don't mind ad's if they're unobtrusive and part of the page when it loads but inevitably you wind up waiting for an ad-server and then get some annoying animated crap, sorry pal, you brought it on yourself.
 
Eli said:
I've been noticing this more and more. Usually, it's not hard to thwart.

Wired though, I was trying to read an article and had to constantly reload it and scroll quickly. Apparently they have it set up so after scrolling so much, it pops up. Annoying as hell.

And yeah, it's just going to cause me to stop visiting the sites, not whitelist them. They should understand that the people with adblockers aren't the people clicking on the ads in the first place.
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Adblock's "Element Hiding Helper" extension is sometimes useful in these cases. It depends on whether or not the page is grayed out when the pop-up is there. If not, you can use it to hide the pop-up.
 
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