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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 RedGreen on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:10AM (1 child)
I doubt it matters much to them where we go, they will continue their scummy behaviour until some politician thinks he can get some votes by outlawing it. Then the work around will happen along with the exemptions and we get to rinse and repeat forever while the scum try to increase their hold on it and us.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday December 23 2020, @12:51PM
I thought the current crop of scummy politicians were letting spam callers run free so they could jerk their chain and "make a difference" in the months before the election, but thanks to COVID that was an irrelevant sideshow.
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