Yea, same. Ads have gotten so obnoxious to the point where the freaking FBI considers adblock an essential part of proper internet hygiene.
And remember, if the page actually had useful content that wasn’t click bait or some shit. Be nice… remove the adblocker and reload.
They gotta pay bills too, having infrastructure deployed to serve content is not free. Don’t kill their business if they have quality content.
It’s their prerogative to refuse serving. It’s my prerogative to go somewhere else. Adblocker stays up, sorry.
If it’s an understandable amount of ads, I’ll disable ad block. If the site bombards me with an unjustifiable amount of ads (like adblock-tester level of ads) then I’ll re enable adblock in seconds. Same goes for if they serve scam ads like those ‘virus detected’ or ‘hot singles in your area’ malvertisements
The first time a toxic ad shows up the ad block goes right back up though.
Adblock detection blocker!
Don’t forget the blocker for adblock detection blocker detection!
Unlock can do this sometimes. But other times the website locks the scroll bar and I haven’t figured out how to get around that
Press F12 and search for ‘buffer overflow’, and delete those lines. That should get the scroll working again on most sites.
If ever this happens, I think of it a challenge. Most of these are easy enough to get around.
If I can’t get around it, then I’ll bring the issue to the larger ublock origin community.
JavaScript off by default ftw
The web is such a cleaner experience without it! I was using no script to just allow individual scripts for sites that I wanted to function like normal but for 90% of the web I can get by with like no JS.
It did shock me on my initial tour around Lemmy just how many sites want to have JS enabled. Fine now that I’ve got a ‘home instance’, and only have to enable that.
F12
- look for the stupid anti adblock div
- delete
- if that fails, block more scripts, reload page
There we go
