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Free News Sites Step Up Pleas for Consumers to Disable Adblocking Software

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 23 2020, @12:33AM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:24PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:24PM (#1090702) Journal

    I'm also a lot less annoyed by the occasional advertisement, if the content creator is the one that's doing the advertisement. One big thing that circumvents is the very real possibility of third-party advertisements serving you malware. I trust YouTube and especially the content creator to not be distributing malware. Whereas third-party advertisements are ripe for the pickings.

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday December 23 2020, @11:24PM

    by anubi (2828) on Wednesday December 23 2020, @11:24PM (#1090844) Journal

    I think Veritasium is an excellent example of ads done right.

    https://m.youtube.com/user/1veritasium [youtube.com]

    I am very impressed with this guy...

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