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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @03:04AM (1 child)
Do it at the router. That's what I do. Three easy steps: Import, Cleanup/Filter/Whitelist, restart DNS.
#### post_mount script
# hosts list to import and filter
wget -qO- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/alternates/fakenews-gambling-porn-social/hosts" | grep -w ^0.0.0.0 | sed $'s/\r$//' |grep -v -e 'redd.it' -e 'reddit' -e 'linkedin.com' -e 'licdn.com' -e 'pinterest' -e 'pinimg' -e 'reddit' |sort -u > /tmp/mnt/8GB/hosts.clean;
# block facebook hosts if they get removed from imported list again
cat /tmp/mnt/8GB/all_facebook_hosts_to_block|grep 0.0.0.0 |sort -u >> /tmp/mnt/8GB/hosts.clean
# wait because sync is broken on this piece of crap
sleep 6
# make sure your dnsmasq config knows where you stashed the additional hosts.clean
service restart_dnsmasq
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday December 23 2020, @08:57AM
Just install https://pi-hole.net/ [pi-hole.net]