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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @02:07AM (1 child)
I write them a nice note. I do not block ads. I block tracking sites. If u up want to send me ad from your site please do. I do not do business with tracking sites. Please also fix your software fails to understand the difference of ad blocking and tracking blocking.
They get really mad and ask software am I using. DNS only.
Also why DoH is brain dead. It just lets trackers back in.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NateMich on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:02AM
I thought that was the entire point of it.