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Free news sites step up pleas for consumers to disable adblocking software:
If your web browser has recently updated, or you've loaded some new browser extensions, you may be seeing a message when you visit certain free content sites.If your web browser has recently updated, or you've loaded some new browser extensions, you may be seeing a message when you visit certain free content sites.
"Please support journalism by allowing ads," one of the pop-up messages reads.
In the message, there is a large link that will disable the adblocker extension in your browser. There is a smaller link that will allow you to proceed to the site while continuing to block ads.
Dominic Chorafakis, with the cybersecurity consulting firm Akouto, says adblocking extensions aren't exactly new, but it's possible browsers have strengthened them in recent updates.
"Sites that rely on ad revenue, of course, don't like this at all, and there is quite a bit of effort being put in from their side to detect when a visitor has adblocking in place and either ask them politely to disable adblocking or outright prevent them from viewing their content unless they disable it," Chorafakis told ConsumerAffairs.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @02:03AM (1 child)
This is a blatant admission that they cater to the advertisers rather than the readers. Otherwise, they would be funded by the readers.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:06AM
The problem is that there's no safe way to do small payments. I suppose I could subscribe, but generally I don't think they have enough of value to read every day. And I hate to read long articles on the internet anyway. I subscribe to paper editions of anything I really intend to read, rather than just look at the headlines. And it's a real pain trying to figure out how reliable most sites are.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.