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"We have helpfully made it impossible to read our site until you turn it off"

“98% of the data for our website is advertising or advertising-related surveillance indistinguishable from malware, what are you doing blocking it?!”

"Disable your adblocker to continue"

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" . . . or do you want to CONTINUE BEING A BIG MEANIE who DOESN'T SUPPORT US!" that one, that's my choice and I hope you take it personally, website

Not our fault the ads prevent me from using your site!

"Are you experiencing interruptions?" Not so's you'd notice

"Disable your adblocker to read this article" Ok, fine. Just this once. "lol jk there's a paywall"

I have yet to see content worth uninstalling my ad blocker

The crazy thing is I don't run an ad blocker and they'll still give you the pop up and tell you to go into settings to enable tracking etc. Galling.

and no i don't want any cookies

Similarly how some sites block you if you're using a VPN.

“Perhaps if your ads did not frequently cover up the material I was here to look at, or cause the Page to reload and thus me losing my spot, I would not need the ad Walker.“

The people who do that shit don't remember things like Hiveworks.

Brave and Duckduckgo till the very end^^

the FBI's website literally tells me to for my safety

I made the mistake of using another browser instead of my usual (DuckDuckGo) and lemme tell you I felt like I’d time traveled bc the last time I saw that many pop ups was back in 2002

“Would you like instructions on how to turn off your adblocker so you can see our content?” Absolutely not! But if you’re going to make me jump through hoops, the hoops I will jump through will be to load a cached version of the site. With my adblocker still on, IN CASE I STUTTERED.

Visiting the same sites without adblocker:

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This one's a classic:

Maybe if you, a person who hates ads, turn off your adblocker, you will decide to pay attention to our ads and buy something

Me: "You damn right. This my mf'ing phone!" 🤣

"Please turn it off"

I still have to listen to youtubers waffle on about a sponsorship at least once every video either way so ad blockers are simply in my best interest

I tried to be supportive bsky.app/profile/numb...

I propose a deal: they stop cramming every page with intrusive ads that violate our privacy and we'll consider turning off the ad blockers.

"thanks to the prevalence of adblockers we've had to make ads even more intrusi. . . hey! Stop that!!"

Especially when this is the first time I've ever been to your site. Support you? I know nothing about you yet, other than that you're trying to advertise with me and complaining about my adblocker.

"Please disable your adblocker to view this website." Nope, your website is malware, I guess I'll have to go somewhere else.

ALL DAY, that's how I survive!

"No, I won't turn it off and if you try to force me to I will find a way to bypass the wall out of spite."

nope, it's just a cookie and tracker blocker but thanks for for your concern

'yeah man sorry your parent corporation made the internet unusable otherwise idk what to tell you'

Metacritic apparently doesn't even work now when using an ad blocker. All the links go to a 404 page!

Recommendations for the best adblocker?

but ouw site expewience 🥺👉👈

if i wasnt, i wouldnt be visiting your site at all!

It's funny how sometimes if you use noscript you can figure out what scripts are blocking you from seeing the website under an adblocker and sneak through.

Any site that says "it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." is a site being butthurt because it can't data farm you.

"Please disable your ad blocker to view our site."

Old Man Captain America: No, I Don't Think I WillALT: Old Man Captain America: No, I Don't Think I Willstatic.klipy.com

Or my favorite: "If you don't turn off the ad blocker, you can't stay here!" Oh, well, see ya then!

them> "Please disable your ad blocker to continue" me> *hits ctrl-shift-i*

'Oh shit my bad, let me turn it off,' said no-one ever.

Please disable adb- *Clicks out of website*

Honestly I would be happy to allow ads for the revenue if they didn’t make the site completely unreadable

"Hey, my 12674 partners saw you from across the website and we really dig your vibe. Can you turn your AdBlock off?"

Have they considered NOT making their website a cesspool of ads that cover 60-70% of the screen as well as pop ups every time you scroll for a couple seconds? No? They haven't? Well then I think I feel pretty good about my adblocker, thanks for that weird guilt trip attempt.

Your insistence on not enjoying our optimal customer experience sickens me.

I wish

I like the ones with the passive-aggressive 'No thanks, I'll miss out on special offers' decline button

I just had to change mine.. not only stopped working, TOTALLY UNINSTALLD ITSELF. :(

Looks like you are using an adblocker to access our site 👉👈🥺 Could you please not

It’s extra funny when sometimes it works to use the adblocker to block that specific element

"A condom, eh?" -HPV to me

What are you gonna do about it, cry? Cry you little baby website.

ʅ(ツ)ʃ i label them shits as ads & perma-block those, too

Even with your Adblock the data about your visits are still being collected by dns services. Everyone should use PiHole+unbound to minimize tracking by orgs like Amazon. this is a decent guide in the how: vdaluz.com/blog/pihole-...

Pi-hole + Unbound: Building a Privacy-Focused DNS Infrastructure | Victor Da LuzA practical guide to setting up Pi-hole v6 with Unbound recursive DNS resolver, including TLS configuration and automated replication. Based on real-world experience with actual problems and solutions...vdaluz.com

After all, a great way to get people to want to buy your product is to make it so that the first impression of it in their minds is an inconvenient interruption.

Yes I have an adblocker. It's there on purpose, not by accident. *I put it there so that I will not be drowned under a deluge of loud useless ads for things I don't want, don't need, and even if I did I would not buy them from a source that won't accept my choice of "not now go away"*

And I’ll never stop!

No I won’t disable it.

Me installing an adblocker: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me having all the ads blocked: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Marketing departments spend fortunes trying to profile & understand their customers’ wants & needs. Yet a customer telling them for free ‘Don’t pollute my online experience with intrusive advertising’ is not welcomed.

Joke’s on them. Turn off adblock? Turn on NoScript

I love when they’re like “here are some instructions to uninstall ublock”. I wonder if literally any human has followed them

Oh no! My adblocker blocker blocker needs updating! *mock horror*

It’s nice of them to confirm that it works!

What the world, needs now, are invisible ad blockers. Straight to /dev/null.

it's my computer, and i choose the software that runs on it

Me: "Yeah, have you considered taking a hint?"

my favorite are the news sites that hit you with the adblock guilt trip and then when you turn off content blockers they hit you with their subscription paywall

and I’ll do it again

hitting the "fine, i GUESS you could continue WITHOUT supporting us you-you stinky poo poo head" button hits like crack every time

I miss the internet when it wasn't corporate controlled shit with a billion ads on every page

No no, you see to get the BEST experience you have to disable the ad blocker. The degree of happiness related to the consumed material is only able to reach maximum levels if commercial interruptions edge your attention span to within an inch of its life before flooding you with dopamine again

It looks like you are auctioning off my attention to the highest bidder instead of selling and vetting your own ads on your own site.

moments later, added a custom ublock filter to remove the adblock banner script and restore scrolling back to the page

*Ahem* Malware vector blocker, you mean? ;-)

And legit, any site that doesn't just let you through is a shitty cop.

me clicking continue without supporting

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Adblock was made for similar reasons the FDA exists. We didn't do it for funsies. They were putting chalk in milk & saw dust in cereal, & every website has become what once was a virus warning. If I didn't need adblock to make your site tolerable I wouldn't use it. The onus is not on the consumer.

Smiling every time I remember when one of their writers got snippy with me on the other site.

To the cadence of the Alex Rochon 'hell yeah i'm making poor life choices' meme HELL YEAH I'M BROWSING THE INTERNET WITH MY ADBLOCKER IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO USE THE INTERNET IN CURRENT YEAR *AND IT ROCKS!*

and I’m either going to click on “continue without supporting” if that’s available or just close the tab if it’s not

also you in 5 years: huh where did all the good local journalism go?

so you’re not paying $5/mo to access tv tropes dot com without ads? do you hate media literacy