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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: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday December 23 2020, @02:28AM (2 children)
Ad-blockers? Much easier to just use Firefox and block all images. Even works for blocking videos, and the site can't tell you're blocking "their" ads as well.
And for those sites that try to block all but the first few lines of content if you're not a registered user? Click on the "text" icon in the URL bar that appears after the page is loaded (you may have to scroll down and back up to force the icon to appear).
You'll be amazed by both the bandwagon savings and the page load speeds. You'll also no longer be loading tracking and "share with" icons from anywhere.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday December 23 2020, @07:48PM (1 child)
I haven't used image blocking-- well, it wasn't blocking so much as simply not downloading them, to save bandwidth-- in a very long time, basically since I was last on dial-up, in the days before Firefox existed as Phoenix. Good to know that option is still present.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @10:39PM
If you use ublock origin, you can even specify the size of images. First party Small ones that are usually icons can still go through. Videos or third party or large ones blocked. It's a bit nicer than blocking all images and saves almost the same amount of bandwidth. We've actually had people using less that way when we rolled it out, probably because they stopped toggling the feature on and off in the browser.